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DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot# 3296 Richmond, Virginia 1862 Lot# 3301 Lassen County, California 1877 Confederate States of America Bond $100 Lassen County Land & Flume Company Confederate State of America Loan. Issued Stock Certificate Inc. in 1876. No. 40, issued July 26th, 1862 in Richmond. Signed by for 100 shares to AKW Clarke in 1877. Signed Acting Register of the Treasury CT Jones. Not by Toomey as secretary and president E cancelled. Black border and print. Vignette Cassidy. Not cancelled. Black border and portrait and smaller vignette of a dog next to print with lumber mill vignette. Britton & a strongbox. Printed by B. Duncan, Richmond. Nine coupons attached. Rey printer. Heavy folds, cut short left, creases. In 1875, Capt. C.A. Approx. 12.5 x 15” Folds, creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 Merrill began work in earnest to tap Eagle Lake for irrigation in the HWAC# 113741 Honey Lake Valley. He first formed the Lassen County Land & Flume Company, but within four years that endeavor failed. Ken Prag Collection Lot# 3297 Richmond, Virginia 1863 Est. $200-300 HWAC# 113666 Confederate States of America Bond $1,000 Confederate States of America Loan. No. Lot# 3302 Pasadena, California 1911 1355, issued January 15th, 1863 in Richmond. Pasadena Lake Vineyard Land and Water Signed by Register of the Treasury Tyler. Not Company Stock Number 8262 for 7 5/1000 cancelled. Black border and print, portrait shares. Signed by president Durrell(?0 and vignette. Printed by B. Duncan, Columbia, SC. secretary Parker. Black on white. 9 x 5”. “The Seventeen coupons attached. Folds, creases, Pasadena Lake Vineyard Land and Water toning. Approx. 13.5 x 14” Ken Prag Collection Company was incorporated in January, 1884, with a capital stock Est. $200-300 HWAC# 113742 of $250,000, divided into 5,000 shares, the par value being $50 per share. This company, spoken of generally as the “east side company,” Lot# 3298 Chinese Stocks & Bonds delivers irrigating and domestic water to Pasadena east of Fair Oaks California Chinese Fireworks (very colorful) 2 avenue, and to lands outside of the city limits, eastward from Pasadena pieces. Hi Wo Hong Company 1959. Hong Kong toward Lamanda. The greater part of the territory supplied lies within Bank uncancelled. Plus 3 other 1931. Ken Prag the boundaries of the original 2,500-acre Lake Vineyard tract, of the Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125788 San Pasqual rancho.” [scipophily.net] Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-150 HWAC# 123302 Lot# 3303 Portola, Plumas County, California Other 1886 California Land and Timber Company Stock Certificate Very attractive certificate! Inc. in 1885. No. 49, issued for 100 shares to Treadwell Cleveland on June 9th, 1886. Signed Lot# 3299 1916 Hoachooza-Palestine Land by president Jas. Boyd and secretary Watson. & Development Company Stock Certificate Not cancelled. Ornate border and font with a Inc. in Illinois. No. 166, issued for one share to A spectacularly detailed vignette of trees. Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. Mirsky on August 14th, 1916 in Chicago. Signed Pinholes, folds, creases, some toning. 6 x 10” This company operated by the president (Buford?) and secretary Harry at Portola in Plumas County, California. In 1885, they created the Chapman. Punch cancelled. Orange border Sierra Valley & Mohawk Railroad to transport items to and from Reno and seal, black print, and religious themed (connecting with the NCO Railway). Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 color vignette! Folds, creases, toning. From HWAC# 113667 the Jewish Virtual Library: “A large group of Jewish families from St. Louis travelled to Israel under the name “Hoachooza Palestine Land Lot# 3304 San Diego, California and Development Company.” The group, led by a man named Simon 1898 San Diego Land and Town Goldman, planned to establish an agricultural settlement in Poriah. Company Stock Certificate Inc. They arrived via boat in Alexandria, Egypt on February 16, 1920, and in Maine. No. 1062, issued for from there completed their journey by train. Upon their arrival in Israel 1,000 shares in 1898. Signed the group wasted no time setting up their agricultural community, but by president BP Cheney and their almond crop was quickly ruined by a surprise snow-fall in March the treasurer (illegible). Not and they fell on financial hardship. ... The community was a failure, and cancelled. Green border, black while many individuals returned to St. Louis, some settled elsewhere print, and vignette of Native in Palestine.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113678 American overlooking a town. ABN. Folds. The San Diego Land Lot# 3300 Colusa County, California 1864 $50 and Town Company was the real estate arm of the California Southern Colusa County Bond No. 141. Bond of the Railroad, and is credited for developing Chula Vista, the Sweetwater County of Colusa. $50. Issued to John Rush in Dam and the National City and Otay Railroad. They were owned by 1864. Signed by county auditor Frank Spalding the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company. The company and President of the Board of Supervisors was formed for the purpose of improving and disposing of the lands Estill. Pen cancelled. Black border and print, donated by the people of National City and San Diego to subsidize the red seal, and two allegorical vignettes. Printed construction of the California Southern Rail Road. Ken Prag Collection by Britton & Co., SF. Folds, creases, rip in upper Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113758 left corner, and damage to seal. 24 coupons attached. 15 x 13” Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 113697 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 149

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot# 3305 San Francisco, Lot# 3310 California Chinese Fireworks California 1915 Panama- Stock Certificates With Explosions, Dragon Pacific International & Chinese Letters (3) Lot of 3 California Exposition Co. Stock Chinese Fireworks Stock Certificates. What a Certificate (PPIE) No. 9177 beautiful stock certificate. California state flag, a dragon, fireworks and issued for 10 shares to H. the company name printed in Chinese in purples, blues, reds and pink. Mitchell on March 10th, 1915. Issued for 1 share. Small red Cancelled stamp at lower left corner. In Signed by William Dutton, EF condition. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 124818 vice-president of voting and depository trustees, and Leon Lot# 3311 California 1870s Rare Group Sloss, secretary. Not cancelled. of Unissued 1870s California Stock Black border and print. Deep Certificates Lot of 4 different. All unissued, folds with tape repairs. One but scarce! 1) Pacific Powder Company, tied 2 cent stamp attached upper left. 9 x 11.75” The Panama-Pacific 1870s, Marin County. 2) West Coast Distillery International Exposition (PPIE) was held in San Francisco from Company, San Francisco, 1870s, vignette of February to December, 1915. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# factory at waterfront. 3) Napa and Sonoma 113764 Wine Company, St. Helena, 1870s. Wine grapes vignette. 4) Vallejo City Water Company, 1870s, Nature vignette. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 113672 Lot# 3306 San Francisco, California 1868 Two San Francisco Stock Certificates: Pacific Lot# 3312 Woodson, Kansas 1856 Woodson Town Guano Co. and Oriental Insurance Co. Lot Association Stock, Kansas Territory, 1856 Very of 2 different. 1) Pacific Guano Company. No. rare and early. Done in the style of a broadside. No. 35, issued in 1868 for 100 shares to Chick. 72, issued for one share to John H. Swift. “Each share Signed by president Stephen Otis and secretary will be entitled to an equal division of Land and Burnham. Pen cancelled. Black border and Oats...” Dateline Greenwood, May 5th, 1856. Signed by print, eagle on shield vignette. The Pacific president Henry Addams and secretary WS Brewster. Black print on blue paper. 12.25 x 8” Folds, large areas Guano Company was for twenty-six years of toning. There is a Woodson County in Kansas but (1863 ñ1889) the principal industry of no record of a town of Woodson with the Kansas Woods Hole. It was the result of the association of the Boston shipping firm of Glidden and Williams and two Cape Cod families. The islands Historical Society. No other information could be located. Ken Prag along the west coast of South America were found to have guano Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113766 (bird dung) several hundred feet thick, which was used in fertilizer. 2) Lot# 3313 Mississippi 1833 State of Mississippi Oriental Fire and Marine Insurance Company. Unissued. Great vignette Bond $1,000 bond No. 845, issued in Jackson in of Egyptian man with pyramids in the background. Britton & Rey, SF. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113720 1833 to John Delafield. Rate is 6 per centum per annum. Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi. Lot# 3307 Truckee, California 1875 Peoples Signed by governor AM Scott and the auditor Ice Company Stock Certificate Most of these (illegible). Not cancelled. Black border and print. are punch cancelled. This one is lightly pen 41 coupons attached. Folds, creases. Approx. 13 x 16” Scott was Mississippi’s 7th governor. He cancelled. No. 24, issued for 25 shares to JC died in office in 1833 (the year of this bond) from Lunn on Feb. 6th, 1875. Signed by president cholera. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# John Cashin and secretary JF Sweeney. Black border and print with vignette of ice house on lake. Printed by 113738 African-American lithographer GT Brown. Folds, trimmed tight on Lot# 3314 Lovelock, Nevada Li’l Darlin’s of the left, some toning/soiling. According to a February 1876 article in the West -- Bordellos Inc. Stock Certificates, the Morning Union, this company had works at both Truckee and in Prospectus, & Picture Lot of 10 “Li’l Darlin’s of Washoe Valley. The latter served the needs of the mining towns on the the West” Bordellos Inc. Sets. Each one includes Comstock Lode, while the Truckee works sold to San Francisco and Sacramento. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113719 an unissued fantasy stock certificate, a fantasy prospectus, & a picture of the “staff.” These were Lot# 3308 Yuba County, California 1857 Gold issued by Li’l Darlin’s of the West Bordellos Inc., Rush Era $500 Yuba County Bond Bond of a brothel which was set up in 1969 in Lovelock, Nevada by a former Vegas showgirl. The the County of Yuba, California. $500. No. 222. prospectus makes for interesting reading. These Issued in 1857. Signed by the County Auditor make great gifts since the stock certificate is unissued and ready to fill and the Chairman Board of Supervisors. Pen cancelled. Black border and print, pink seal, in the blanks! Extremely fine. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 124814 and 4 vignettes (three allegorical plus one of a Lot# 3315 Buffalo, New York 1901 Pan- paddle steamer). Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. American Exposition Company Stock Fourteen coupons attached. 15 x 15.75” Folds, creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113694 Certificate Inc. in New York. No. 8329, issued for one share to John Seilbach on April 26th, Lot# 3309 California California Ink Company 1901. Signed by the president (Millhouse?) and Stock Certificates (10) Lot of ten California the treasurer. Not cancelled. Green illustrated Ink Company Preferred Stock Certificates, border, black print, embossed seal and vignette incorporated in 1919 and all issued in that year. of two allegorical women. 5 cent adhesive stamp. Folds, creases. Ken Cancelled. All handsigned by the president Geo. Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113675 Graham and the secretary Robert G. Arlett. This was the first company to produce magnetic ink for checks. Overall very fine with several folds. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 124824 150 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot# 3316 New York, New York 1854-1928 Lot# 3321 Plumstead, Pennsylvania 1883 Bank of America Stock Certificates Lot of Union Dairymen’s Association Stock 4. 1) Three are early certificates issued in with nice Pink Underprint Number 60 for 1854 and 1859. They have an eagle of shield 2 shares for $10. Signed by president RW vignette, New York dateline, and our pen Nash. The association was headquartered int cancelled. 5.25 x 9.5” 2) The fourth is a Bank the Township of Plumstead, Bucks County, of America National Association stock issued in Pennsylvania. This historic document has 1928 for one share. Punch cancelled. Eagle on shield vignette. ABN. Ken an interesting border around it with a pink Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113722 underprint of a Quaker family including a man leaning over the fence talking to his wife and son next to a cow. Some discoloration along Lot# 3317 New York, New York 1859- left fold. Otherwise very nice! Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 1933 New York Banking Stock Certificate 123257 Collection Lot of 9 different. Included: First National Bank of Cooperstown (1883 plus Lot# 3322 Texas Gonzalez, Texas Lodge different unissued 1900s); Bank of America Hall, I.O.O.F. Stock Certificate, 1867 (1859); State Bank of Williamson (1920 plus The State of Texas, County of Gonzales. different unissued); Briggs National Bank Seventy-five dollars ($75) was paid to of Clyde (unissued, 1800s); Old Colony State Bank (1925); Bank of Gonzales Lodge Hall No. 38, I.O.O.F. and this United States (1930); and Briggs National Bank and Trust Co. (1933). certificate constitutes John Fuller a stock Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113723 holder in said building and entitles him to a dividend each December. Document Lot# 3318 New York, New York Playboy is dated Dec. 1867. Signed by the three Enterprises, Inc. Specimen Stock Certificate members of the committee. Some of the Specimen stock certificate printed by ABN. dividends are signed off on the back. Vignette of nude woman. Green border, black Uncanceled. Est. $160-250 HWAC# 118637 print. Printed signatures of Hugh Hefner and the executive vice president. Punch cancelled. 8 x 12” Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113718 Lot# 3319 New York, New York 1870 Wells Lot# 3323 Texas 1840 Republic of Texas $100 Fargo and Company Stock Certificate Ultra Bond No. 2126. Republic of Texas Certificate rare. This is from the period after the “Grand of Stock in the ten percent consolidated fund Consolidation” of 1866 when Wells Fargo, Created by Act of Feb. 5th, 1840. Issued to John Holladay, and Overland Mail stage lines were Price. Signed by Comptroller Shaw and Stock united under the Wells Fargo name, and the Comm. Charles DeMorse. Cut cancelled in company began its domination of Western numerous places. Southern Bank Note Co. Two stagecoach express and banking. No. 312, issued for 100 shares to HW allegorical vignettes and a star. Ten coupons Perkins on February 25th, 1870. Signed by Ashbel Barney as president, attached. Toning, creases. 7.5 x 9.75” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 C. Goddard as treasurer, and George K. Otis as secretary. Pen cancelled. HWAC# 113704 Tied 25 cent adhesive revenue stamp on the front. A second stamp on the reverse. Pinholes, folds, creases. 8.25 x 12” Ashbel Barney served Lot# 3324 Texas 1840 as president 1869-1870. He was the brother of Danford Barney, who Republic of Texas $500 Bond was also involved with Wells Fargo from the beginning. The two also No. 257. Republic of Texas formed the United States Express Company. Ken Prag Collection Est. Certificate of Stock in the ten $800-1500 HWAC# 113665 percent consolidated fund Created by Act of Feb. 5th, 1840. Lot# 3320 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1795 Issued to Alexander Russell North American Land Co. Stock w/ Autograph & Co. Signed by Comptroller of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence Simmons and Stock Comm. Very early stock with a very important signature. Charles De Morse. Cut cancelled. Issued for 10 shares to William Temple Franklin Southern Bank Note Co. Two in April 1795. Signed by Robert Morris as allegorical vignettes and a star. president and James Marshall as secretary. 9.75 Ten coupons attached. Toning, x 12” Robert Morris, in addition to being a signer tape repair. 7.5 x 9.75” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113703 of the Declaration of Independence, was called the “financier of the American Revolution.” But Lot# 3325 Seattle, Washington his involvement with the North American Land Company literally 1894 Queen City Printing destroyed his life. During the Revolutionary War, Morris, an extremely Company Stock Certificate wealthy Philadelphian, kept his friend George Washington and his Rare. Place of business: Seattle. troops fed, clothed, and armed. After the war Morris tried his hands Inc. in WA. Low number 4, in other ventures including the largest land trust in American History, issued for 5 shares in 1894 to and is one of the first publicly traded Real Estate companies. To make company president Frank H Van a long story short, his investments turned bad and the harder he tried Brocklin. Signed by Van Brocklin to reverse his fortunes the deeper in debt he became. So in 1798 the and secretary Willson. Not financier of the American Revolution and signer of the Declaration of Independence found himself in debtors prison! Ken Prag Collection Est. cancelled. Ornate blue border, $400-600 HWAC# 113708 gold seal, red and blue font. Background vignette in yellow of printing press. Folds, light wear. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113656 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 151

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Other Lot# 3326 1900’s Distillery Stock Certificates Lot# 3329 Merrill Lynch Stock Certificates Thirty-four stock certificates issued by various issued to Merrill Lynch (10) Lot of 10 Merrill distilleries. This lot includes the following Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Stock Certificates unissued certificates like, Alexander Young issued to Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith. Company, Whitehall Distilleries, Inc, Schenley 1971. Issued and cancelled. The most famous Distilleries Corporation (3). Single certs include name in stock brokerage firms. Merrill Lynch Irish Hills Distilleries (Issued 4/11/1934, No & Co., formally Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Cancel date, Red revenue stamp), Daniel Boone & Smith Incorporated, was a publicly-traded Distilleries, Inc, (Issued 2/17/1968, No Cancel Date), Two National American investment bank that existed Distiller Products Corporation (One, Issued 8/9/1951, Canceled independently from 1914 until January 12/14/1951, Two, Issued 9/4/1941, Canceled 11/14/1951), The 2009 before being acquired by Bank of America and rolled into Distillate Company,(Issued 4/8/1929, Canceled 7/8/1931), Distiller’ BofA Securities. Machine printed signature of Donald Regan, former Securities Corporation, (Issued 1/13/1903, No Cancel Date0,Haddam Secretary of the Treasury. Very fine. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 124819 Distillers Corporation, (8/6/1936, Canceled 7/7/1958), Green Mountain Distillery, Inc, (Issued 11/12/1936, Canceled 9/12/1958) Lot# 3330 Ringling Two: North American Distillers, Inc.(One, Issued 7/15/1935, No Cancel Bros - Barnum & Bailey Date), Two Issued 11/2/1935, No Cancel Date), The Old WightFamily Combined Shows Stock Distilling Company,(Issued 7/9/1948, Canceled 9/21/1948), Schering Certificate Ringling Corporation, (6/24/1970, Canceled 6/22/1971), Schering-Plough Bros - Barnum & Bailey Corporation( Issued 2/8/71, Canceled 6/1/71), Tom Moore Distillery Combined Shows Stock Co.(Issued 11/20/1943, Canceled 6/1/1944), The American Distilling Certificate, issued to Company,(Issued 12/5/1969, Canceled 12/11/70) Beaver Creek Goodbody & Co. in 1970. Distillery Inc. (Issued 5/27/1968, Canceled 12/9/1968), The Roxbury Printed: American Bank Distilling Company, (Issued 1/4/1907, No Cancel Date), Nevada Note Co. Ringling Bros. Distilleries Inc, ( Issued 4/ 6/1945, No Cancel date), Northwest and Barnum & Bailey Distillers Inc, ( Issued 1/15/1945, No Cancel Date), Three: Merchants Circus, formerly Ringling Distilling Corporation, (One, Issued 5/16/1955, No Cancel Date, Two, Bros. and Barnum & (Issued 5/14/1946, No Cancel Date, Three, Issued 6/4/1946, No Bailey Combined Shows also called “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Was Cancel Date) Three Kinsey Distilling Company, (Issued 3/7/1934, No an American circus that was the best-known traveling circus in the Cancel Date, Two, Issued 12/29/1937, No Cancel Date, Three, Issued US in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Operations ceased in 2017. It 12/26/1936, No Cancel Date) Two, Tom Moore Distillery Co. (Issued and its predecessor shows ran from 1871 to 2017. Known as Ringling 1/6/1944, Canceled 6/30/1944, Two, Issued 11/12/1940, Canceled Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, the circus started in 7/31/1944) Two, Cockeysville Distilling Company, Inc. (One, Issued 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth, a circus 2/18/1949. Canceled 9/1/1953, Two, Issued 10/9/1953, Canceled created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with 3/23/1954) Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag the Ringling Bros. World’s Greatest Shows. Ringling brothers had Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 124583 purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey’s death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919. With weakening attendance, many animal rights protests, and high operating costs, the circus performed their final show on May 21, 2017 Lot# 3327 Enron Stock Certificate Biggest at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum and closed after 146 years. Fraud in History One share of Enron Corp. Rare to find an issued Ringling in Extremely Fine condition. Est. $200- Stock certificate issued 2004. This was the 400 HWAC# 124816 biggest fraud bankruptcy at that time, along with the biggest insider insider trading scandal. Vignette of driller sitting on building Lot# 3331 1914-1918 Three Pictorial in foreground with globe of world over one Automobile Stock Certificates (Woods shoulder and drilling platform and oil refinery in background. Enron Mobilette and Pan Motor) Lot of 3 different Corp. was an American energy, commodities, and services company choice certificates. 1) Woods Mobilette based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1985 as a merger between Company. No. 1842, issued in 1914 for 100 Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. Before its bankruptcy on Dec. 3, shares. Not cancelled. Vignette of automobile. 2001, Enron employed approx. 29,000 staff and was a major electricity, 2) Different Woods Mobilette issued in 1915 natural gas, communications and pulp and paper co. Fortune Magazine for 600 shares. Different early automobile named Enron “America’s Most Innovative Company” for 6 consecutive vignette. Not cancelled. 3) Pan Motor Company. No. 33076 issued in years. Enron perpetrated one of the biggest accounting frauds in 1918 for 25 shares. Not cancelled. Three vignettes including of an history ending with company’s demise. Extremely fine condition. Est. early automobile. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113714 $50-150 HWAC# 124822 Lot# 3332 1921-1964 Watch Company Stock Lot# 3328 Global Crossing Stock Certificates Certificate Collection Lot of 8 different from 4 (10) Lot of 10 Global Crossing Stock Certificates different watch companies! 1) Waltham Watch issued 2003. One of the largest bankruptcies Company. Three certificates, issued 1927- in history during the dot com bubble. Large 1929, all punch cancelled. Feature a vignette underprint of continents. Global Crossing was of a bald eagle on top of a clock. 2) Benrus a telecommunications company that provided Watch Company, Inc. Three certificates, issued computer networking services and maintained a 1953-1959, blue, orange, and green varieties. All punch cancelled. large backbone network. Machine printed signature 3) Elgin National Watch Company. One certificate issued in 1921. of Gary Winnick. Extremely fine condition. Est. $50- Punch cancelled. Vignette of bald eagle on top of watch and allegorical 150 HWAC# 124821 vignette. 4) Longines-Wittnauer Watch Co., Inc. One stock issued in 1964, punch cancelled. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113671 152 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Pharmaceutical Lot# 3333 1900-1920s World’s Fair Lot# 3337 Baltimore City, Maryland 1891 Exposition Stock Certificate Group (4) Lot Strontia Mineral Spring Company Stock of 4 different. 1) Panama-Pacific International Number 166 for 20 shares to Edward Moore. Exposition (PPIE) Company. Issued in 1914 Signed by Stock has been lowered from for 50 shares. Not cancelled. Heavy folds with $300,000 to $75,000 and the price per share some separation. For the 1915 San Francisco from $100 to $24. Vignette of small gazebo World’s Fair. 2) The Pan-American Exposition with “Strontia Spring” written on roof. Has old Company. No. 4417, issued for one share in tape marks and some discoloration. A little 1900. Not cancelled. Condition issues: heavy folds, soiling, water fragile, but nice. Strontium, the metallic base of Strontia, one of the damage. For the 1901 World’s Fair in Buffalo. 3) Bronx Exposition, Inc. alkaline earths, first obtained from native carbonate of strontium Issued for 10 shares in 1918. Not cancelled. Folds, pinholes. The Bronx by Sir Humphry Davy in 1805. The Strontia Mineral Water Spring is International Exposition of Science, Arts and Industries was a world’s located near Brooklandville, Baltimore County, Maryland. All that is fair held in the Bronx, New York City, in 1918. Meant to commemorate claimed for the Water is no doubt well sustained from the testimony the 300th anniversary of the Bronx’s settlement, it failed to become given in its favor. It is prescribed for diseases of the Stomach, Liver, popular, as the exposition was held during World War I. 4) The Kidneys; Gout, Rheumatism, Headache and Genital Weakness. It will Sesqui-Centennial Exhibition Association. Unissued. Vignettes of cure your ailment!!! Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123251 Independence Hall and the liberty bell. For a World’s Fair held in 1926 in Philadelphia. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113771 Lot# 3338 Massachusetts 1921 H. J. Brewer Company Stock Number 444 for 5 shares to Ellen Petroleum Rice. Signed by E. O. Hapgood(?). Lot# 3334 New York Roberts Petroleum Black on white with brown border. Slight dogear bottom right. In Torpedo Company Stock, 1865 Cert. #43, 1915 the company was reported to issued to E.A.L. Roberts for 100 shares in 1865. be in poor financial condition. Ken Great vignette of what we believe to be the Prag Collection Est. $60-80 HWAC# earliest instance of fracking. Colonal Roberts 123394 had invented an explosive torpedo to restore the well flow of oil from finished wells, or to increase the production of existing wells. The Roberts had six torpedos Lot# 3339 Atlantic City, New Jersey ready for testing and formed the company. The torpedo consisted of 1925-1928 Wrigley Tooth Paste a long metal cylinder filled with gunpowder and attached to a steel and Wrigley Pharmaceutical (both cable carefully lowered into the well. The tests were so successful, that fraudulent) Stock and Letter Group the Roberts brothers fought many patent infringement battles over Lot of three stocks. 1-2) Orange. the next 25 years! The certificate is stunning and quite historic. Some slight browning at the left edge. Pen canceled. Est. $400-600 HWAC# Wrigley Pharmaceutical. Two different 118581 toothpaste vignettes for spearmint gum. Both signed by HH Wrigley. Incorporated in 1920. Located near Pharmaceutical the Million Dollar Pier. 3) Brown tan and black on off-white. Same logo. Lot# 3335 Santa Cruz, California Head office in Montreal, Canada this Western Soda Company, Inc. Stock time! Signed by HH Wrigley. Includes signed by druggist JH Hornsnyder letters from 1974 with history of this (has associated bottles) Early fraudulent company and its moves number 18 for 100 shares. Green from state to state and country to country to beat the laws to prevent border with black on white. Folds. fraudulent activity. Not to be confused with Wrigley gum. Ken Prag The smallest nick bottom center. Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123269 Otherwise extremely nice. Signed by JH Hornsnyder - a druggist! There are bottles associated with his company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-150 HWAC# 123270 Lot# 3336 Stockton, California 1927, 1931 Medico-Dental Investment Corporation Stock and bond 1) 6% Gold Bond. 1927. Some discoloration. Seems to be a specimen or unissued as there is no number and all coupons and signature lines ae hole cancelled. Lot# 3340 Pomeroy, New York 1882 Pomeroy Pharmaceutical 2) Sock Certified. 1931. Number Company Stock Number 25 for 5 shares. Signed by president David C117 for 3 3/4 shares. Signed by R Doty. Gold Seal with pastel and mortar vignette. Small vignette of president Thompson. Cancelled. Nude mail body from the waist up. vignette. Moto “Perfection in Health.” Shows wear for its 90 years. Ken a pharmacy in 1882. Logo was “Palma none Sine Pulvere.” Noted for Prag Collection Est. $70-100 HWAC# 123406 pharmaceutical plaster and hospital dressings. [New York, 1894, Illustrated] Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123305 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 153

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Pharmaceutical Lot# 3341 New York 1917 Davis & Geck, Inc. Lot# 3346 1900’s Dental Company Stock Stock - Proudly Advertising Iodized Cat Gut Certificates Twelve stock certificates issued That’s right - iodized cat gut. Two vignettes of by various dental supply and laboratory their product also advertising sterile cat gut. companies. Issuers include six by The Thy- Number 91 for 18 shares. Signed by secretary ma-tol Dental Company (Eagle vignette), Benjamin Hirsch and president Charles Davis. United Tooth Crown Company (Eagle vignette), Vignette of logo also. Cancelled. Nice condition. a pair ofThe Consolidated Dental E Rays Reverse has one $20, one $10, one $, one $2, Laboratories (Eagle American shield vignette), and four 20c New York revenue stamps. Davis & Geck was a surgical/ a pair of Associated Dental Products Inc (Eagle medical device company founded in 1909 by Charles T. Davis and vignettes) and The Griswold Dental Bridge Fred A. Geck originally located in Brooklyn, NY. It specialized in the Company (Gold seal). All are in good condition, with no revenue development and manufacture of surgical sutures along with various stamps. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag other products in the wound closure, surgical technique, and aseptic Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124553 technique categories. At one point it manufactured over 2,000 different product codes. In 1930, the company was acquired by American Lot# 3347 1900’s Drug Company Stock Cyanamid. [wikipedia] Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 123410 Certificates Group of 17 drug company stock certificates. Included are four (4) unissued Lot# 3342 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1919- Davis Drug Stores Corporation. Also two 1927 Foot Medicine Company Stock issued certs from Davis, including (One: Certificates Two certs issued by two foot Issued 4/5/1934, No Cancel Date, Two:Issued remedy companies. Included are Flanagan 2/16/1934, Canceled 3/8/1934), Three Lane Foot Cushion Corporation, Issued 6/15/1927, Drug Stores Inc. (One: Issued 1/23/1930, no cancel date and Corn Fix Company, issued 12/31/1919, no cancel Canceled 12/2/1932, Two: Issued 1/23/1930, Canceled 12/2/1932, date. Both are in good condition. Light fold creases. Please see photos Three: Issued 1/23/1930, Canceled 12/2/1932) Four Rexall Drug for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-80 HWAC# Incorporated (One: Issued 1/25/1949. Canceled 2/30/1950. 119375 Two:Issued 4/25/1949, Canceled 4/20/50. Three: Issued 1/24/1947, Canceled 4/28/1950. Four: Issued 4/24/1947, Canceled 9/2/1949). Lot# 3343 Pennsylvania 1918, 1920 Gates Three United Drug, Inc. (One: Issued 10/7/1983. Cancel Unreadable, Dental Laboratory Company Stock Group - Two: 9/11/1933, Canceled 2/8/1945, Three: Issued 9/8/1933, 3ndifferent with numbers 1 and 2 of each!!! Canceled 1/21/1936, three red, one green and one orange revenue Lot of six. A pair of each - one cancelled and stamps). The Owl Drug Company (Issued 5/1/1930, No Cancel Date). one not cancelled. 1-2) 1918. Number 1 for Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124579 13 shares to Charles Gates. Signed by treasurer Charles Gates and president J George Gates as president. Hole punched sea. Number 2 Lot# 3348 1900’s Drugs to Madeline Gates. Not cancelled. Otherwise same as number one. & Herb Company Stock In very nice condition. 3-4) 1920. AGAIN a number 1 for second Certificates This is a group preferred stock. To Charles Gates and signed by J George Gates and of 26 stock certificates issued secretary Hauser. Not cancelled. Number 2 to Madeline Gates. Neither by various pharmaceutical cancelled. In fine condition. 5-6) Brown first preferred stock. Number companies and one natural 1 to J Raymond Richardson. Signed by Charles gates and J George ingredient farm supplier. Gates. Poor condition. Number 5 to Jno. Fawber. Nice condition. This Included are the following is a unique collection! Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123422 multiples: two Squibb Beech- Nut Inc., issued 2/6/1968, Lot# 3344 1908-1917 American Druggist Syndicate uncanceled, and issued Stocks Lot of three different versions. 1) Number 11516 5/20/1974, uncanceled; for 7 shares in 1908. Signed by president Goddard. two Ada-lux-iem Medicine Green border. Vignette is a druggist pestle and mortar Company, issued 2/25/1907, with two hands shaking and the motto “In Union there is uncanceled, and issued Strength.” Green border. 2) Number 17351 for 4 shares. 11/10/1908, uncanceled; two Allied Drug Products Company, issued Signed by president William C Anderson. Vignette of a 6/18/1927, uncanceled, and issued 10/4/1946, uncanceled; four druggist laboratory. Also druggist pestle and mortar. Bristol-Myers Company, issued 8/29/1929, uncanceled, issued Green. 3) Number $24582 for 2 shares. Signed by 9/19/1946, canceled 7/10/1972, issued 8/12/1947, canceled president Goddard. 1917. Same vignette as above. Blue. 6/29/1972, and issued 1/19/1968, canceled 7/6/1972; three Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 123377 Proctor & Gamble Company, issued 9/1/1956, uncanceled, a Lot# 3345 1917-1920 Associated specimen, and unissued; and two Parke,Davis & Company, issued 8/14/1961, canceled 9/24/1972, and issued 3/25/1969, canceled Pharmacists, Inc. Stock and Bond Lot of 9/24/1971. Single certs include E.C. DeWitt & Company, issued three. 1) 1917 5% Money Reverting Stock 12/20/1923, uncanceled; Bay State Drug & Chemical Company, Note. Orange. Number 4856. All 10 coupons issued 1/25/1899, uncanceled; Balsaea Medicine Company, issued still attached. 2) Number 13636 for 200 9/6/1921, uncanceled; American Medical Products, issued 2/1/1921, shares. 1920. Blue border. Signed by president uncanceled; Allison Drug Stores Corporation, issued 1/29/1929, WB Cheatham. 3) 1918 Associate Member uncanceled; Fellows Medical, unissued; The Lactobacilline Company, Organization Certificate of Membership. Number 6957 to C. E. issued 1/2/1907, canceled 4/26/1924; The Medicinal Products Habiger. “The plan of the company is to manufacture goods handled by Company, issued 5/20/1911, uncanceled; The Physicians Supply druggists in concentrate form which it is claimed saves freight charges Company, issued 2/12/1906, uncanceled; Praxas Pharmaceuticals Inc, often paid on a large volume of water and the like. The company lias a issued 12/21/1988, uncanceled; The York Chemical Company, issued factory in Brooklyn, N. Y. where it also maintains its headquarters. The 4/29/1907, uncanceled; Consolidated Ginseng Company, issued organization is a rather complicated one. There is an association for 10/2/1903, uncanceled; and Mills’ Ginseng Farm, issued 6/10/1905, druggists and an association for consumers. By bringing the druggist uncanceled. There are several with vignettes and they are in good and the consumer into one organization it is believed that the druggist condition with seals and cancellations. Please see photos for more will push the Associated Pharmacists’ goods in preference to others details and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 124550 and that consumer members will express a preference in buying.” [scripophily.not Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123371 154 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Pharmaceutical Lot# 3349 Eastern Drug Company Stock Lot# 3351 1800’s-1900’s Medical Remedy Certificates Nine stock certs issued by various Company Stock Certificates A group of eleven eastern drug companies. Included are certs stock certificates issued by medical remedy from Logan Drug Company (issued 6/8/1896, companies. This interesting and sometimes not canceled), The New Trutona Medicine amusing lot, includes those issued by The Company (issued 6/28/1920, not canceled, Sentanel Remedies Company Two: (One, Issued patriotic vignette), The Illinois Drug Company 12/7/1915, No Cancel Date, Red revenue (issued 5/22/1900, not canceled, Greek themed vignette), The Keller- stamp, Two, Issued12/14/1915, No Cancel Wilson Drug Co.(issued 11/1/1912l canceled 11/19/1913, pastoral Date Red revenue stamp), The American Remedy Company, (Issued vignette), Lowe Drugs Ltd (unissued, eagle vignette), Co-operative 11/24/1884, No Cancel Date), Clover Medicine Company, (issued Drug Company (issued 7/15/1921, uncanceled, eagle vignette), 9/16/1895, No Cancel Date), The Zumota Remedy Company, (Issued Atlantic Drug Stores (issued 9/22/1922, uncanceled, gold seal), Taylor 12/5/1916, No Cancel Date), The Radium Remedy Company, (Issued Drug Inc. (two - both issued 11/5/1929, uncanceled - with eagle 9/21/1917, No Cancel Date), F.R. Matsinger Remedy Company, Inc, vignettes) and Crown Drug Company (issued 7/2/1969, uncanceled). (Issued 3/21/1907, No Cancel Date), John D. Hair Restoring Company, All are in good condition, all are canceled. Show crease marks. See (Issued 9/19/1922, No Cancel Date), Hamer’s Sure Cure Company, photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $180-350 (Issued 10/16/1902, No Cancel Date), Eatonic Remedy Company, HWAC# 124548 (Issued 5/24/1916, No Cancel Date), Chlorine Remedy Company, (Unissued). Please see photos for more detail and condition. Ken Prag Lot# 3350 1900’s Medical & Health Institution Stock Certificates Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 124588 Collection of 31 stock certificates issued by various medical concerns. There are four Lot# 3352 1900’s Pharmaceutical Stock unissued certs, Certificates Eight stock certificates issued by American various pharmaceutical companies. Included Health Service, are certs issued by Standard Pharmaceutical Inc. (2), The Corporation (issued 6/28/1938, uncanceled, Electric Medical eagle vignette), TAPS Pharmacal Company Process Company (issued 10/25/1917, uncanceled, frayed and Medical damage on top), The Norwich Pharmacy Company (two - issued Economics, Inc. 10/5/1948, canceled 4/1/1974 and issued 12/10/1959, canceled . Also included 3/12/73, with Greek themed vignette), Columbian Pharmacal Company is Two: Medical (issued 11/25/1893, uncanceled), The Agnew Pharmaceutical Ent e r pr is es Company (issued 10/8/1901, uncanceled, Steamship, Locomotive Inc. (Issued and Greek themed vignette, red revenue stamp and red seal) and two 3/22/1972, No issued by The Wisconsin Pharmacal Company, one issued 1/17/1919, Cancel Date), uncanceled, with a Greek themed vignette and gold seal and the other Col umb ian issued 3/23/1922, uncanceled, with a very impressive Abraham H o s pital Lincoln vignette and a gold seal. All are in very good condition (Except Associa t ion, for the aforementioned TAP cert). Please see photos for more details (Issued 8/15/1906, Canceled 9/1/1906), Baxter Laboratories, Inc. and condition. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 124549 (No Issue Date Visible, Canceled 9/18/1971), Zarol Medical Research, Incorporated ( Issued 6/22/1928, Canceled 2/17/1932), Search Lot# 3353 The Owl Drug Company Stock This Medicine Company, (Issued 4/20/1895, No Cancel Date), Phoenix is a great companion piece to your Owl bottles. Medical Company, (Issued 7/1/1902, No Cancel Date), The Medico It is a specimen and number 15497. Black on Chirurgical College, (Issued 4/19/1899, No Cancel Date), American yellow. Officer’s names are hole punched. Holes Drug and Press Association, (Issued 3/23/1914, No Cancel Date), for storage on left. Folded corner top right. The American Blood Lymph Co. (Issued 10/1/1903, No Cancel Still a striking piece. Owl vignettes on corners. Date), Medical Health Industries, Inc. (Issued 2/1/1972, Canceled Mortar and Pestel vignette inside stamp. Ken 1/17/1973), Medical Dispensing Systems, Inc (Issued 4/16/1984, No Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123315 Cancel Date), Medi Card, Inc. (Issued 6/28/1968, Canceled 9/8/1971), Century Medical, Inc. (Issued 5/29/1975, Canceled 4/28/1982), Lot# 3354 Western Region Building Association of the Society of the New or Practical Psychology, Drug Company Stock (Issued 8/27/1906, No Cancel Date), The Swedish Consumptive Certificates (10) Ten stock Sanatorium (Issued 7/10/1908, No Cancel Date) The Geuda Springs certificates issued by western Health Resort Company,(Issued 9/18/1920, No Cancel Date) General region drug companies. X-Ray Corporation, (Issued 6/21/1930, Canceled 1/9/1931), Included are Two Scholtz Standard Electro-Medical Corporation, (Issued 10/13/1937, No Mutual Drug Company certs Cancel Date), Professional Health Services, Inc. (Issued 6/12/1969, (One: Issued 4/7/1923, No Canceled 2/2/70), Reading Medical Arts Building Corporation, Cancel Date, Two: Issued (Issued 6/27/1930, No Cancel Date), Smith Brothers Laboratories, 4/7/1923, No Cancel Date), Inc. (Issued 10/30/1931, No Cancel Date), Oxyneura Medicine and Service Pharmacy (Unissued), Publishing Co. (Issued 9/18/1905, No Cancel Date), Hollywood North American Drug Company (Issued 5/19/1919, Canceled Hospital Company, (Issued 7/9/1924, No Cancel Date), Industrial 8/25/1923), Doctors Drug Company (Issued 6/16/1902, No Cancel Medical Supply Company, (Issued 11/20/1944, No Cancel Date), Four Date), Two General Drug Company Certs (One: Issued 8/4/1928, Seasons Nursing Centers of America, (Issued10/1/1970, No Cancel No Cancel Date, Two: Issued 8/4/1928, Cancel 5/21/1930) Adamo Date), Two: Watkins-Johnson Company, (One, Issued 5/15/1968, Pharmacy Company (Issued 6/15/1912, No Cancel Date), People’s Canceled 12/29/1971, Two, No Issue Date, Cancel Date 12/29/1971- Drug Company ( Issued 4/29/1927, No Cancel Date) The Physicians’ In Error), Watkins-Johnson Company, (Issued 12/31/1970, Canceled 12/2/1971) Please see photos for detail and condition. Ken Prag Chemical and Drug Company (Issued 12/29/1921, No Cancel Date. Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 124584 Ken Prag Collection Est. $180-350 HWAC# 124580 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 155

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Pharmaceutical Lot# 3355 192- WOW! An Owl Flying Right Lot# 3362 San Francisco, California 1886 at you on an Owl Drug Company Stock This California Street Cable Railroad Company is perhaps the most dramatic underprint Stock Certificate issued to Borel Inc. in 1884. vignette around. Specimen. 192-. Officers No. 331, issued for 10 shares to Antoine Borel names are hole punched. Four owl vignettes on on Dec. 7th, 1886 in San Francisco. Signed corners. Number 662. Owl sitting on a Mortar by president Charles Payne and secretary and pastel inside company seal! This is a great Heirickman. Signed on the back by Borel. Punch cancelled. Black companion piece if you collect Owl bottles. It is border and print, streetcar vignette. Folds, heavy toning on left a great piece if you like the mesmerizing owl! Some border condition side. Antoine Borel came from Switzerland in 1861 and became an issues. Please see photo. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# influential banker, land owner, diplomat, and pioneer of San Mateo 123316 County. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113673 Lot# 3363 San Francisco, California 1883 Railroad California Street Railroad Company Stock Lot# 3356 Canton Railway Bonds, 2 Certificate Inc. 1876. No. 135 (? ink faded) for 12 shares to A. Borel on July 12th, 1883 different Canton-Kowloon Railway 1907; in San Francisco. Signed by vice-president N. Canton-Hankow 1934. Ken Prag Collection Smith and secretary Hirshcman. Pen cancelled. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 125781 Black border and print. Crocker & Co. Folds, toning. A. Borel is almost certainly Antoine Borel, a San Mateo County pioneer and noted businessman. The California Street Cable Railroad (Cal Cable) was a long-serving cable car operator in San Francisco, founded by Leland Stanford. The company’s first line opened on California Street in 1878 and is the oldest cable car line still in operation.The company remained independent until 1951, outlasting all the other commercial streetcar and cable car operators in the city. The city purchased and reopened the lines in 1952; the current cable car system is a hybrid made up of the California Street line, and the Hyde Street section of Cal Cable’s O’Farrell, Jones & Hyde line, together with other lines already in municipal ownership. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# Lot# 3357 Chinese Imperial Railway Bond 113710 Group Imperial railway of Northern China, Lot# 3364 San Francisco, California 1891 Geary three gold loans, 2 different. Chinese Ministry Street Park and Ocean Railroad Co. Bond signed railway 4 bonds, 3 different. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-500 HWAC# 125782 by Crocker Rare! Vignette of street car. Signed by Chas. Crocker president. $1000. #190, issued in 1891. 19 coupons attached. One of the first cable car operators in San Francisco. Operated 1880- 1912, at which point the city took over and made it an electric streetcar line. Charles F. Crocker (1854 Lot# 3358 Honan Railway Bonds (3) Three –1897) was the vice president of the Southern bonds, 2 green 1905 with coupns; 1 orange 1903. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# Pacific Transportation Co. He was the eldest son 125689 to American railroad and banking magnate of the same name who founded the Central Pacific Railroad and took control of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 113674 Lot# 3359 Peking Syndicate Bond Green on yellow 1909, coupons Ken Prag Collection Est. Lot# 3365 California California Railroad $60-100 HWAC# 125688 Stock Certificates (4 Different) Lot of 4 different, all unissued, but still a scarce group! 1) South Bay Railroad & Land Company. San Francisco County. 1870s. Two locomotive vignettes. 2) Los Angeles and Vernon Street Railway Company. 1880s. 3) California Railway. Oakland, 1890s. Lot# 3360 Pukow Railway Bonds three Locomotive vignette. 4) Los Angeles, Pasadena & Glendale Railway pieces 2 1908 5% scrip notes; 1 5% 1914 bond. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 125780 Company. 1880s. Locomotive vignette. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 113659 Lot# 3366 California 1897-1930s Sierra Railway Company Bonds & Stock Lot of 4 different. Included: 1897 $1,000 bond, punch cancelled; unissued $1,000 1897 bond; 1936 Lot# 3361 San Francisco, California 1890- $1,000 bond, punch cancelled; and unissued 1929 California Street Cable Railroad Co. stock certificate. The Sierra Railway Company Stocks & Checks Lot of 5. 1) Three stock was conceived as the solution to connect the certificates, two designs. One unissued plus gold and minerals, plus the timber and lumber resources located in two issued in 1923 and 1929. The two issued the Central Sierra Nevada to the national rail transportation network. have a great trolley vignette. 2) Two different Investors, Thomas Bullock, Prince Andre Poniatowski, and William pictorial checks for the company, issued in 1890 and 1895, signed by Crocker financed a rail line from Oakdale toward Tuolumne County James B. Stetson as president. Both have streetcar vignettes. Ken Prag and eventually Calaveras County. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113670 HWAC# 113721 156 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Sports Lot# 3367 Chicago, Illinois 1870 Pullman’s Lot# 3373 Oregon Oregon & Palace Car Co. Stock Signed by Pullman Inc. in Transcontinental Co Stock, Issued to and Illinois. Issued for two shares in 1870 to Henry Signed by Charles Pratt Cert. #22175, issued C. Knowlton; the stock # is difficult to read. for 100 shares to Charles (Chas.) Pratt in Signed by George Pullman and president and 1884. Charles Pratt, (1830-1891) built a major the secretary. Signatures are punch cancelled. oil refinery in New York and merged with Black border and print with ornate script. Tied Standard Oil in 1884. He was a key stockholder 25 cent revenue stamp attached at bottom left. Folds, some stains, tape in the Oregon & Transcontinental Company. An advocate of education, repairs. 5.5 x 8.5” Pullman developed his “palace” railroad sleeping car Pratt founded and endowed the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, now a in the 1860s. They gained national attention when President Lincoln’s renowned art college in 1887. Pratt started in the whale oil industry body was transported in one. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# in 1851. His signature is quite rare. Pratt signs on the verso when he 113772 endorsed the certificate. The certificate was canceled in 1885. Stub attached at the left. ABN. Est. $300-450 HWAC# 118638 Lot# 3368 Indiana Joliet & Northern Indiana Railroad Stock Signed by Cornelius Lot# 3374 Pennsylvania Chartiers Railway Vanderbilt II Cert. #253, issued for 1 share Company Stock Issued to and Signed in 1887. Signed by C. (Cornelius) Vanderbilt, by Henry Clay Frick Cert. #971, issued to the grandson of the famous Commodore as H.C. Frick for 120 shares at Philadelphia president. The certificate was issued to Ashley in 1885. Henry Clay Frick (December 19, Pond for 1 share. Black print on creme paper. 1849- December 2, 1919) was an American Punch cancellations. Stub attached at left. Nice industrialist, financier, union-buster and art clear signature of Vanderbilt. Est. $300-400 HWAC# 118649 patron. He founded the H.C. Frick & Co. coke manufacturing company, and was chairman of the Carnagie Steel Lot# 3369 Virginia City, Nevada 1874 Virginia Company, where he had a contentious relationship with Andrew & Truckee Railroad Bond & Stock Certificate Carnegie. Frick played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Lot of 2. 1) $1,000 bond issued in 1874 to Steel.Frick’s signature is very rare. He endorsed the certificate on the Thomas Bell. No. 225. Signed by William Sharon back as H.C. Frick. Lith. by American Bank Note Co. Philadelphia. VF. as president and Geo. A King as secretary. Est. $850-1500 HWAC# 118619 Signatures are punch cancelled. 36 coupons still attached. 2) Scarce unissued 1860s stock Lot# 3375 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh certificate for the railroad. Pictorial. Choice. Ken & Lake Erie Railroad Stock Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113682 Issued to and Signed By Three Vanderbilt’s- 1912 Stock issued Lot# 3370 New York 1882-1929 Eleven in 1912 for 1,000 shares to Alfred Different New York Railroad Stocks/Bonds G. Vanderbilt. Nice vignettes of Lot of 11 different. Includes: Cayadutta Electric harbor, dock scene and railroad. The Railroad (1893); Twenty Third Street Railway stock transfer slip included with this share sale is signed by Reginald (1893); Syracuse, Geneva and Corning Railway Vanderbilt and Frederick Vanderbilt. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was (uniss.); New York, New Haven & Hartford the son of Cornelious Vanderbilt II. He was the director of Fulton Railroad (orange and blue 1928); New York & New England Railroad Chain Rwy, Raquette Lake Rwy and others. He built the Vanderbilt ($1,000 bond, 1882); New York, Ontario & Western Railway ($1,000 Hotel in New York. Tragically, he died in the Lusitania disaster in 1915. bond, 1929); New York Railways Corp. (1926); New York & Fort Lee The certificate has small holes at the top with hole cancels through Railroad (uniss.); and Geneva, Corning & Southern Railroad (two the signatures. Also it is stamp canceled. A rare and historic railroad different uniss). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 certificate. Est. $600-900 HWAC# 118579 HWAC# 113774 Lot# 3371 New York 1850s-1935 Eleven Sports Different New York Railroad Stocks/ Bonds Lot of 11 different. Includes: Troy and Lot# 3376 Riverside, California 1949 Club, Baseball Inc. Stock Rubidoux Lansingburgh Railroad (1868 $1,000 bond); Certificate Riverside, California. No. 163, New York Railways Participation Corp. (1926); issued for one share to Charles W. Lee or New York Railways Corp. (1927 and 1935); New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Mack P. Lee on Sept. 6th, 1949. Signed by vice (1932); Cairo Railroad Co. (uniss. 1800s); president Hunt and secretary Brown. Not Wallkill Valley Railroad (uniss. 1800s); Utica cancelled. Black border and print, green seal and Schenectady Rail Road (uniss. 1850s); Canarsie Railroad (uniss.); and background, and an allegorical vignette. and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (uniss. $5,000 and GOES. Folds. They belonged to the Sunset League, a minor league $10,000 bonds). Please inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 baseball circuit operating 1947-1950. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100- HWAC# 113775 200 HWAC# 113752 Lot# 3372 New York 1880s-1966 New York Lot# 3377 Baltimore, Maryland 1965 Railroad Stocks/Bonds (11 Different) Lot of Baltimore Baseball Club, Inc. (Orioles) Stock Certificate Inc. in Missouri. No. 6341, issued 11 different. Included: West Shore and Ontario for one share to Williams Co. on March 25th, Terminal Co. (uniss); New York State Electric 1968. Printed signatures of the president and & Gas Corp. ($1,000 bond 1954); New York, Pittsburgh and Chicago Railway (uniss); New secretary. Punch cancelled. Blue border, black York Central Railroad ($1,000 bond, 1966); print, and logo vignette of an oriole perched on New York Central Rail Road (uniss); New York and Northern Railway top of a baseball that says “Orioles.” Printed by ABN. Pinholes, folds. Co. (uniss 1880s); New York and New England Railroad (1893); New Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113749 York Railways Corp. (two diff 1926); Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. (1937); and New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (uniss. $5,000 bond). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113776 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 157

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Sports Lot# 3378 Boston, Lot# 3382 Newark, New Jersey 1927 Newark Massachusetts 1922 Boston International Baseball Club, Inc. Stock American League Base-Ball Certificate--Number 2 Issued Inc. in New Club Stock Certificate Inc. Jersey. Very low #2, issued to the company in New Jersey. No. 81, issued president, James P. Sinnott on Oct. 18th, for 75 shares to John C. Heyer 1927. Signed by Sinnott and the treasurer. on January 7th, 1922. Signed Pen cancelled. Green border and background, by president Harry Frazee black print, logo in the clouds vignette. Folds, staining on left border. and secretary Herrmann. Pen Printed by Broun-Green Co. The Newark International Baseball Club, cancelled. Orange border, Inc. owned the Newark Bears. The Newark Bears were a Minor League black print, and allegorical Baseball team in the International League, beginning in 1917 at the vignette. Pen writing in red Double-A level. They also served as a farm team for the Yankees. Ken ink about stock increase at the top. Folds, creases. Predecessor to the Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 113747 Boston Red Sox. Harry Herbert Frazee (June 29, 1880 – June 4, 1929) was an American theatrical agent, producer, director, and owner of Lot# 3383 Rochester, New York 1957 the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. He is well known for selling Rochester Community Baseball, Inc. Stock Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, which started the “Curse of the Certificate Inc. in New York. No. 2352, issued Bambino.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 113754 for 3 shares to Arthur Gaglio on March 15th, 1957. Signed by president Charles Silver and Lot# 3379 Boston, Massachusetts 1921 Boston the secretary. Not cancelled. Blue border and American League Baseball Club Temporary Stock print, illustrated logo featuring a baseball with wings and “Rochester Red Wings.” ABN. Folds. The Rochester Certificate Rare temporary certificate with revenue Red Wings are a professional Minor League Baseball team based in stamps. Issued to company treasurer UJ Herrmann Rochester, New York. The team plays in the International League for 500 shares on March 2nd, 1921. Signed by the and is the top minor league affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. The Red president HH Frazee and Herrmann. Pen cancelled. Wings play their home games at Frontier Field, located in downtown Four revenue stamps on the bottom: two $10, one $5, and one 50c. 12.25 x 8.5” Predecessor to the Boston Rochester. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113751 Red Sox. Harry Herbert Frazee (June 29, 1880 – June Lot# 3384 Salt Lake City, Utah 1958 Salt Lake 4, 1929) was an American theatrical agent, producer, City Baseball Corporation Stock Certificate director, and owner of the Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. He is Inc. in Utah. No. 7250, issued for 2 shares to well known for selling Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, which started the “Curse of the Bambino.” Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 Edward LeCompte on July 28th, 1958. Printed HWAC# 113753 signatures of the president and secretary. Not cancelled. Green border and seal, black print, Lot# 3380 Boston, Massachusetts 1873 and large vignette of city buildings. Printed by Boston Base Ball Association Stock GOES. Folds, light wear. It was in 1958 that the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles and forced the Hollywood Certificate Ultra-rare. This is a significant piece of baseball history. Low cert. number Stars of the Pacific Coast League out. They landed here! Ken Prag 9, issued for two shares to FG Webster on Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113746 January 29th, 1873. Signed by Charles Porter Lot# 3385 1945-1970 Football Themed as president and Frederick Long as treasurer. Stock Certificates Lot of 4. 1) Plymouth Not cancelled. Black border and print. Five cent adhesive revenue Argyle Football Company Limited. Issued for stamp attached at bottom left. Folds, toning on left border. 5.25 x 8.75” 4 shares in 1945. Signed by two directors The Boston Base Ball Association was the corporation that entered and the secretary. England. Folds, toning, tape the Boston Red Stockings baseball team to compete for the National repairs. 2) Three stocks for Broadway Joe’s, a Association championship. They won the championship in 1873 (the restaurant chain created by Joe Namath. Issued year this stock was issued). The Boston Red Stockings eventually 1969-1970, punch cancelled, logo with vignette of a football player. became the Atlanta Braves. Charles Porter was a descendant of the Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 113745 original Pilgrims that settled Massachusetts. He served as company president for only 1873 and helped lead the organization back into Lot# 3386 1923-2004 Miscellaneous Sports financial profitability. You won’t find many baseball items earlier than Stock Certificates Lot of 6. 1) Steel City Soft this! Ken Prag Collection Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 113677 Ball Association, Gary, Indiana, stock certificate Lot# 3381 Kansas City, Missouri 1936 Kansas issued 1939, not cancelled. 2) Reading Base City Baseball Club, Inc. Stock Certficate Ball and Athletic Association stock certificate, 1923, not cancelled, Pennsylvania. 3) Inc. in Missouri. No. 39, issued for 56 shares American Skiing Company stock certificate, to CR Burrell on May 21st, 1936. Corporate 2004, vignette of skiers. 4) Unissued Boston signatures cut-out. Brown border and seal, American League Base-Ball Club. 19__. Inc. in black print. GOES. Folds, toning. They would New Jersey. 5) Phoenix Giants Baseball Club check, 1968. 6) Turf Ski win five American Association pennants in stock certificate. Issued in 1975. Blue border and background. Ken Prag the 1930’s as a farm system to the New York Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113744 Yankees. In 1933 both Tris Speaker and comedian Joe E Brown had ownership in this club. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113750 Visit our online catalog and do a keyword search to quickly locate items your looking for! Visit the online catalog at FHWAC.com 158 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Tobacciana Lot# 3387 1928-1936 Sports Stadium Stock Lot# 3390 Baltimore, Maryland 1912 Certificate Group Lot of 4 different. 1) Two The Cigar Machine Corporation Stock stocks for the San Francisco Stadium, Inc. Green with detailed Vignette of Their Cigar and orange, both issued in 1936. This stadium Machine! Number 509 for 100 shares was located at 15th and Valencia. It was used in 1912. Signed by president Seeley. for a variety of athletic events including the GREAT VIGNETTE. Black on white with San Francisco State football team from 1935 double green border. Fold and a couple to 1940. 2) Bond in French for the Stadium de of creases. Very nice indeed! “Founded Paris, 1934. Vignette of building in the background and Olympic rings 1911, Cigar Machine Corporation, on the side. 40 coupons attached. France held the Summer Olympics Baltimore, Maryland., was incorporated with authorized capital stock in Paris in 1924. 3) Richmond Stadium $10 bond issued in Richmond, of $5.000,000 to erect a plant to manufacture cigar-making machines. Virginia in 1928. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113748 The company held patents for a cigar-filler cutter and charging mechanism and a cigar-bunching machine. The company failed during World War I due to a scarcity of machine parts to assemble Tobacco its machinery.” [oldstocks.com] Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 123347 Lot# 3391 Boston, Massachusetts 1913 Lot# 3388 1964 Imperial Coconis Cigarette Machine Co. Stock This Tobacco Company (of Great was an early coin operated cigarette machine. Britain and Ireland) Loan Stock Number 43 for 5 shares in 1913. Signed by Now here is a unique stock to be president Constantine Coconis (as in the found an American soil! Number company name). Black on white with fancy 92024 for 1,000 pounds in 1964. green border and title bar. Printed by Hoffman Pain with title in a black box. Real Stamp and Eng out of Boston. Two The American Tobacco Company allegorical vignettes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123341 (ATC) set aside a massive 30 Lot# 3392 1900’s Cigarette Manufacturer million dollars to buy up British Stock Certificates Seven cigarette company tobacco companies one by one at related stock certificates. Certs include the start of the 20th century. The Skidmore Cigarette Company (Unissued), key figure was James Buchanan North American Cigarette Manufacturers, Duke, head of ATC, whose aggressive methods had created a virtual Inc. (Unissued), North American Cigarette monopoly for the company in the US. Individually, British companies, Manufacturers, Inc. (Unissued), Philip even those of the size of WD & HO Wills and John Player & Sons, could Morris Incorporated (Three:One, (Unissued), Two, (Unissued), not survive. When Duke arrived in Liverpool in 1901, he walked into Three,(Unissued), Paper Cigarette Makers’ Union Corporation (Issued Ogden’s factory and bought on the spot. Duke then approached other 5/26/1920, No Cancel Date). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# British companies and is reported to have burst in on the Player 124575 brothers, saying: “Hello, boys. I’m Duke from New York, come to take over your business.” He was politely shown the door, an experience Lot# 3393 1900’s Large Group of Tobacco repeated at other companies. Facing such resistance, he paused for Company Stock Certificates Thirty Four stock reflection. And with this pause, 13 family-run businesses, led by Wills, certificates issued by various tobacco companies. Players and Lambert & Butler, time to meet and, in December 1901, Included are six certs issued by Tobacco Products The Imperial Tobacco Company (Great Britain and Ireland) Limited was formed. [imperialbrandsplc.] Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 Corporation, (One, Issued 7/22/1930, No HWAC# 123430 Cancel Date, Two, Issued 12/18/1928, Canceled 3/22/1929, Three, Issued 7/24/1930, Canceled 6/20/1932, Four, Issued 9/24/1924, Canceled 2/2/25, Five, Issued 1/13/1932, Lot# 3389 Tampa, Florida No Cancel Date, Six, Issued 9/16/1930, Canceled 6/1/1931). P. 1915 Tampa-Cuba Cigar Lorillard Company, five unissued. The remaining are (One,: Issued Company Stock Number 864 7/28/1933, Canceled 3/12/22, Two: Issued 2/24/1948, Canceled for 18 shares. Dated May 25, 12/29/1959, Three: Issued 3/17/1954, Canceled 12/30/1959, Four: 1915. Eagle vignette. Company Issued 1/31/1990. No Cancel Date, Five: Issued 1/26/1912 Cancel logo vignette. The Company, date Unreadable, Six: Issued 1/27/1958, Canceled 12/ 31/1959. organized in 1912, was owned R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, ( Two: One Issued 9/29/1948, No and operated by the Wholesale Cancel Date, Two: Issued 9/29/1948, Canceled 10/13/1948, Tobacco Druggists Association of the Products Corporation (Two: One Issued 9/22/1930, Canceled United States. Then on Spanish 4/11/33, Two: Issued 1/22/1923, Canceled 10/8/1924, Green River owners used their vast chain Loose Leaf Burley Tobacco Warehouse Company (Issued 8/25/1919, of stores across the country to Canceled 12/13/1921), Virginia Leaf Tobacco Company Incorporated. distribute their own generic cigar brands. Notable personages were (Issued 8/3/1925, No Cancel Date), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company another favorite subject for cigar label advertisements. The Tampa- (Unissued Specimen), Tobacco Products Corporation of Delaware Cuba Cigar Company received permission to portray a famous actress, (Issued 3/19/1932, Canceled 10/16/1935), Tobacco Products June Mathis, on one of their labels. [Hidden Treasures of Tampa Corporation, (Ten: One, Issued 10/4/1913, Canceled 7/3/1924, History in Tobacco Journals and Cigar Label Art] The certificate has Two: Issued 10/4/1922, Canceled 10/8/1924, Three: 8/26/1922, a few issues: mainly fold with rips at upper border. Ken Prag Collection Canceled 7/27/1923, Four, Issued 7/13/1922, Canceled 6/18/1923, Est. $60-120 HWAC# 123311 Five:Issued 7/13/1922, Canceled 6/18/1923, Six: Issued 3/19/1930, No Cancel Date, Seven: Issued 3/21/1929, Canceled 9/10/1929, Eight: Issued 3/11/1929, Canceled 9/10/1929, Nine: Issued 3/11/1929, Canceled 9/10/1929, Ten: Issued 3/1/1929, Cancel, 6/25/1929, Eleven: Issued 9/27/1930, Canceled 10/26/1932, Twelve: Issued 3/6/1924, Canceled 9/29/1924...Whew! Nice lot, good looking certs. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124578 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 159

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Tobacciana Lot# 3394 1926-1977 Liggett & Myers Lot# 3397 1900’s Tobacco Tobacco Company Lot of nine. Includes purple Company Stock Certificates and brown 1926 stocks. Older stocks are Fourteen stock certificates reddish orange, red, purple green and blue. All from various tobacco different.”A partnership was formed between companies. Included is John E Liggett and George Smith Myers of Petri Italian-American Missouri, and in 1873 The Liggett & Myers Cigar Company (Issued Tobacco Company was incorporated. In 1876, 2/10/1912, No Cancel Date, Liggett & Myers introduced L&M plug chewing Two: Unissued, Patterson’s tobacco, during the 1880s it entered the cigarette business and by Retail Cigar Company, Inc 1885 the company had become the world’s largest manufacturer of (Unissued), McCormick plug chewing tobacco...Today the Liggett Group, formerly known Cigar Corporation (Issued as Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, is the fourth largest tobacco 2/8/1922, No Cancel Date, company in the United States. Its headquarters are located in Durham, Sargent Cigar & Plantation North Carolina, though its manufacturing facility is 30 miles to the Co.(Unissued), United Cigar Stores Company of America (Seven: One, west in Mebane, North Carolina.” [wikipedia] Ken Prag Collection Est. Issued 10/25/1929, Canceled 3/12/19304, Two, Issued 10/28/1929, $100-200 HWAC# 123409 No Cancel Date, Three, Issued 7/20/1928, Canceled 1/6/30, Four, Issued 7/16/1928, Canceled 12/26/1929,Five: United Cigar-Whelan Lot# 3395 1971, 1972 Smoke Watchers Stores Corporation (Issued 7/28/1937, No Cancel Date), Six, Issued International Stocks (2 Different) Smoke 7/16/1929, Canceled 10/22/1930, Six, Issued 9/4/1931, Canceled Watchers was incorporated in 1969. 1) Reddish 6/1/1966, Seven, Issued 12/30/1929, No Cancel Date. Ken Prag brown. 1971. Includes logo of a cigarette being Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 124574 put our. Number NU 1940. 2) Orange. 1972. Same logo. Number NC 6145. The first is in good condition. The second is near pristine. They were most famous for their How-To-Quit” book. Ken Prag Collection Est. $40-60 HWAC# 123286 Transportation Lot# 3398 California Helicopter Stock Certificates (3) Lot of 3 Different Helicopter Lot# 3396 Tobacco stock certificates: Bendix Helicopter 1947, San Company Stock Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines 1966, Helicopters Inc. 1949. Certificates Twenty-one Helicopters, Inc. was founded by prolific inventor Vincent Bendix, in stock certificates issued 1943 in Connecticut. It ceased operations in 1949. It built a 10,000 by various and sundry square foot factory for helicopter production in Stratford, Connecticut tobacco companies. in 1945. Dissolved in 1949. San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Included are, Manicaragua Airlines was a helicopter airline service offering scheduled passenger Tobacco Company (Issued flights between San Francisco, Oakland, and other Bay Area cities. It 5/28/1900, No Cancel was founded in 1961 but went out of business in 1986. VF-EF. Est. Date), The Standard $50-150 HWAC# 124820 Commercial Tobacco Company Incorporated Lot# 3399 Philadelphia, (Issued 9/20/1927, Pennsylvania 1795 No Cancel Date), Logan Philadelphia & Lancaster Tobacco Company (Issued Turnpike Road Stock Certificate No. 217. Issued 9/8/191, No Cancel Date), The Oriental Tobacco Company (Issued March 16th, 1795 for one 11/6/1905, No Cancel date), Commonwealth Tobacco Company (Issued 3/14/1904, Canceled 4/3/1904), Porto Rico Tobacco share to William Sanson. Corporation (Two: One Issued 6/19/1918, Two Issued 3/4/1930, No Signed by the company Cancel Dates), Continental Tobacco Company (Issued 10/18/1968, No president William Bingham Cancel Date), Eureka Tobacco Company (Issued 1/11/1921, No Cancel and the treasurer (illegible). Date), International Tobacco Co.(Issued 8/24/1910, No Cancel Date), Reverse has notations about The Pumpelly-Howe Tobacco Company Inc. (Five Certs: One Issued transfers. Features a beautiful 6/14/1922, No Cancel Date, Two: Unissued, Three: Issued 6/1/1922, vignette of a Conestoga wagon No Cancel Date, Four:Issued 6/1/1922, Canceled 7/1/1922 , One red, approaching a toll gate. 7.5 x 9.5” Folds, toning and soiling. Printed on thick paper. The Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road was one brown revenue stamps, Five:Issued 6/1/1922 One red, one brown the first long distance stretch of broken-stone and gravel surface revenue stamp, Continental Tobacco Company of South Carolina, Inc.( Two: One Issued 9/2/1966, No Cancel Date, Two: Issued 11/17/1970, built in the country in accordance with plans and specifications. No Cancel Date), The American Tobacco Company (Two: One issued It was the first important turnpike road in the United States and 2/6/1964, No Cancel Date, Two:Issued 4/3/1964, No Cancel Date). the most important section of the famous of the Pennsylvania Road Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# 124573 (which ran to Pittsburg). This road provided cheap transportation between the populous coast regions and the “bread basket” of the newborn Republic, situated in the vicinity of Lancaster. It was the first privately built road of importance and the beginning of organized road improvement after a long period of economic confusion following the American Revolution. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# 113759 160 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3406 Juneau, Alaska Juneau Mining & Mining Power Company Stock Certificate Cert. #5, Lot# 3400 Swastika, Ontario 1916 Lucky issued for 3 shares in 1906. Inc. in Delaware. Cross Mines of Swastika, Limited, Stock The company was a reorganization of the Certificate Rare. Inc. under the Ontario Mansfield Gold Mining Company of West Companies Act. No. 3069, issued for 500 Virginia with the new name. Offices in Ohio, shares to JH Hoffman on Apr. 4, 1916. Signed by and operations in southeastern Alaska. The president Geo. Hays and secretary John West. company operated in the Harris mining Not cancelled. Green border, black print, and district, 12 miles north from Juneau, on McGinness Creek. According red swastika graphic. Heavy folds, repaired tear, some toning. Located to a prospectus online, the company had an extensive operation with in Northern Canada, the gold mine and town were named after the placer and quartz mining, a saw mill and tunnels and flumes. This is another rare Alaska piece with a low certificate number. We probably Sanskrit good-luck symbol Swastika. Mining began in the area in 1907. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113664 will not see another of these. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118643 Lot# 3401 Island Mountain, BC, 1889 Letter & Stock Cert for Shares in British Lot# 3407 Alaska Alaska Mining Stocks (5) Columbia Mine A unique pair of British Lot includes Alaska Gold Mines Company, 1921; Columbia documents, including letter from Alaska Mine Securities Co. 1908; Hubbard- a representative of The Island Mountain Elliot Copper Company, 1912; Nome Placers, Quartz-Mining and Milling Company to San Inc. 1923, and Rowe Alaska Company, 1904. All Jose resident W.R. Lipsett, along with a stock are issued and uncancelled. Average to better certificate, issuing 250 shares of stock at $5 condition. Est. $160-250 HWAC# 118639 per share. The letter is handwritten and dated March 12, 1887. Very readable and good condition. See photos for Lot# 3408 Alaska Wells Bay Mining more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 124597 Company of Alaska Stock Certificate Cert. #43, issued for 3 shares in 1909. Three great Lot# 3402 Britannia Gold Company Stock, mining vignettes across the top. This is a rare and highly desirable Alaska mining stock. Wells Nova Scotia, Canada, 1865 Incorporated in Bay, Alaska is located near Prince William Massachusets in 1865. Cert. #6, issued to Laura Sound and is in the Valdez mining district. The C. Robley for 500 shares. Signed by J.W. Rollins company held 12 claims on Glendenning Bay, as president and W.R. Stockbridge as treasurer. an arm of Wells Bay. The ore showed assays of copper and gold. We Twenty five cent Internal Revenue stamp at the don’t think we have seen this one before, so it’s rare. VF. Uncanceled. left. Total capital, $50,000. Some wear at folds. The company operated Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118641 at Nova Scotia and dissolved in 1872 (1904, Obsolete American Securities & Corporations). This is a rare one and it is uncancelled. Lot# 3409 Wickenburg, Arizona 1902 Bisbee Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118585 Belle Copper Company Stock Certificate Lot# 3403 The Lucky Coon Gold Mining Unique vignette of a cowgirl looking at a US coin! Incorporated March 1901. # 1019, issued Company Ltd. Stock, Ontario, 1899 Cert. #84, for 200 shares in 1902. Signed by George Cake, issued for 500 shares in 1899. Incorporated president, and the secretary. Not cancelled. under the Companies Act, Ontario, Canada. A gold horse shoe on the Blue title, black scrip, black border. Folds, very gold corporate seal. The Lucky Coon is part of the Mine Center district, clean. Owned 25 claims in the Wickenburg Ontario, Canada. The certificate is in excellent, uncancelled condition. area. There were 4 shafts and a 600’ tunnel. Ore assayed at 30% with Very rare certificate and maybe only two known. Another example sold in our January, 2019 auction. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118580 $2 a ton in gold. The company also owned a few claims in the Bisbee area. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113695 Lot# 3404 Cusi Mexicana Mining Stock Lot# 3410 Arizona Humboldt Certificates (10) Lot of 10 Cusi Mexicana Mining Exploration Company Stock, Stock Certificates, 1937 to 1947. Surface mining Arizona, 1909 Cert. #B99 issued vignette. The Cusi mine located in Chihuahua State for 300 shares in 1909. Vignette in Mexico produced silver, gold, lead and zinc. VF. Est. $50-150 HWAC# 124817 photo of A. Von Humboldt. This company was in search of fossils, especially in the Kimmswick Limestone site for a museum in St. Louis. [Archaeology in Lot# 3405 El Taste Silver Mining Co Stock, America: An Encyclopedia] This Sonora, Mexico, 1864 Cert. #391, issued for company may also have owned 5 shares in 1864. El Taste, San Miguel Mines or controlled the the following printed at top left. San Xavier District, Sonora mining companies: Zumate - Esperanza Mining Co., La Gloria - Success printed at top right. Large cut cancel thru the Mining Co., Ste Ana de Capula Mining Co., Capula No. 2 Mining Co., issuee’s name at the top. Also, comes with an Vizcayua Mining Co., and Willey - Cananea Copper Co., all south of the assessment receipt dated 1866. Allegorical border. VF condition. Uncanceled. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 118598 females at left. Twenty-five cent Internal Revenue stamp at bottom right. Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Small tear in bottom border. Uncanceled. Est. $100- 200 HWAC# 118590 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 161

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3411 Hot Springs, Arkansas Ozark Lot# 3417 Bodie, California Silver Company Stock Certificate, Hot 1879 Tiger Gold and Silver Springs, Arkansas, 1880 No. 39, issued for Mining Company Stock 6,500 shares to John C. Rahning and signed Certificate, Bodie, California by Pierson as president and treasurer Snow. Sought after Bodie stock Not cancelled. Black border and print, mining certificate. Location: Bodie, vignette, and gold seal. 8 x 11.5” According Mono Co., Cal. (printed at to advertisements for the company in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the bottom center). Incorporated company had properties in Arkansas near Hot Springs. No further January 22, 1879. No. 300, information could be located. Some wear at folds. Est. $150-250 issued for 25 shares to company secretary Ellis Edwards on March HWAC# 118589 14th, 1879. Signed by president A. J. Adams and Edwards. Not cancelled. Black border and print. Mine vignette. Crocker & Co., SF. Lot# 3412 Bodie, California 1892 Bodie and Very minor wear to top edge. 4.75 x 9.5” Fred Holabird Collection Est. Hawthorne Telephone & Telegraph Co. $300-500 HWAC# 123145 Stock Certificate Inc. August 6th, 1892. No. 51, issued on Oct. 17th, 1892 to AP Cameron for Lot# 3418 Bodie, California 1881 10 shares. Signed by Thos. Leggett as president Union Consolidated Mining Co. and RL McCarthy as secretary. Pen cancelled. Transferred on the back to JS Cain. Pinholes. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113654 Stock Certificate Location of Property: Bodie Mining District, Lot# 3413 Bodie, California 1879 Bodie Bodie, Mono County, California Bluff Consolidated Gold Mining Company (printed under title). No. 147, issued for 100 shares to HA Stock Certificate Rare. Location: Bodie Dickenson on April 14th, 1881. Mining District, Mono Co., Cal. (printed bottom Signed by president Freeman, center). Inc. July 31st, 1879. No. 169, issued secretary Chapman, and treasurer Scone. Not cancelled. Black border for 100 shares to Bayley on Aug. 13, 1879. and print. Folds, pinholes, toning. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113643 Signed by president MP Minor and secretary H. Deas. Not cancelled. Black border and print with fancy script. Printed by A. Carlisle & Co. Excellent condition. The original Bodie Bluff Consolidated Mining Lot# 3419 Bodie, California 1880 South Company was formed with Leland Stanford in the 1860s and was the Standard Mining Company Stock Certificate first mining company organized in the district. Est. $300-500 HWAC# Location: Bodie Mining District. Inc. Sept. 13, 113644 1877. Uncancelled. No. 1796 issued to HB Parsons, Trustee, for 100 shares in April 1880. Lot# 3414 Bodie, California Signed by Wales Palmer, president and C. A. 1881 Bodie Mining Stock Certificate Signed by Ned Sankey, secretary. Printed by Britton & Rey, SF. Allegorical woman next to fancy company logo. Folds, pin holes, creases, light wear. Very clean. Reddy Stock certificate issued 4.5” x 8.75” A rare certificate from this very important Bodie mine. by The Gold & Silver Mining The cave-in that occurred in the Bunker Hill mine in 1875 exposed Company of Bodie, CA. Dated rich enough ore to start the rush to Bodie. The Standard Company February 7, 1881, the cert is purchased this important property. The Standard is perhaps the most signed by Bodie gunfighter, well-known of all the Bodie mines. The reconstructed Standard Mill prison guard and saloon owner Ned Reddy. Cert is in very good is still one of the most noticeable landmarks when you visit the ghost condition with an ink stamp cancel. Piece is in very good condition. See photos for more details. Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 122857 town today. The South Standard was located on the Bruce and Burgess lodes with “rock that bears a strong resemblance to the Comstock Lot# 3415 Bodie, California Consolidated ores...” [United States Annual Mining Review & Stock Ledger, 1879] Pacific Mining Co. Stock, Bodie, Cal. 1879 Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113642 Cert. #2177, issued in 1879 for five shares. The Lot# 3420 Calaveras company incorporated in 1875. Bodie Mining County, California District, Mono County, Cal. printed at the 1863 Gold & Silver bottom. Some pinholes at left side, otherwise VG. Britton & Rey, S.F. Mining Company printer. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118609 Stock Certificate Lot# 3416 Bodie, California 1879 RARE Another rare Calaveras Isabella Consolidated Gold and Silver County stock certificate. Mining Company Stock and Letter (Bodie, Number 23 for 35 shares to A Dubois. California) 1) # 6 for 4,995 shares to H. Signed by Dreschfeld Mayers. Dateline San Francisco August 5, and president Alfred 1879. Signed by Ellis Edward as secretary. Borel(?). Dateline San Francisco 1863. Incorporated June 6, 1863. No president’s signature. Location of mines Not cancelled. 25c Certificate Revenue stamp. 2,200 shares at $100 “Bodie, Mono County, Cal.” Vignette of miner each. Mountain Mill vignette. Drouaillets printer. Pinholes and some delivering ore by wagon to a small mill. No light discoloration at borders. Very nice! The only information we printer listed. Yellow on black. Very nice could find about this company were the multiple assessments within condition. Bottom left corner torn. No other the first year and lack of any production information. The company corner, edge or discoloration issues. 2) This advertised an important meeting on March 26, 1864. THe last notice note talks aobut 74,115 shares that have came on March 25. After that there is no more information. (CDNC) been collected (envelope). The note shows The Blue Mountain district is in eastern Calaveras County about 10 300 shares sold from H. R. Loose and 4,350 from F. M. Adams. This miles southeast of West Point. The principal properties have been company incorporated shortly before July 27, 1879. Trustees included the Black Wonder, Gold King, and Heckendorn mines. Prag Collection Mayers, W. R. Loose, F. M. Adams and E. P. Marcellus. We found State: California City: Calaveras County, Blue Mountain District Date: reference to the incorporation in three California newspapers, but no further information. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $600-1000 HWAC# 1863 Est. $400-800 HWAC# 122856 123169 162 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3421 Folsom, Lot# 3424 Mammoth Lakes, California 1879 East Mammoth Gold & California 1860 Silver Mining Company American River Water Stock The Mammoth and Mining Co. The or Lake district is in American River Water southwestern Mono and Mining Company County about 50 miles was formed in 1854 to south of Bridgeport. build a ditch to divert The district is on the water from the North east flank of the Sierra Fork of the American Nevada Mountains and River providing water is just east of Mammoth for drinking, irrigation Lakes, a well-known and mining operations resort area. The Devil’s to areas that are near Postpile National Monument is about 10 miles to the west. Gold and Folsom. #85 of 100 authorized, I/U, $500 1.5 % bearer bond issued silver-bearing veins were discovered here in 1878, and a short-lived May 30, 1860 signed A. T. Arrowsmith President, Trustee B Hastings “rush” followed. Much of the production at that time was from the and Secretary CTH Palmer. Black, no seal, no vignette, $500.00 red Mammoth mine, which yielded $200,000 in 1878-81. The district was underprint. VF Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 115795 organized in 1887. Several thousand people were in the area then, the principal settlements having been Mammoth City, Mill City, and Pine City. The value of the total production of the district is estimated at $1 Lot# 3422 Inyo County, California 1866 Oro Fino million. [Western Mining History] Incorporated December 13, 1878 Gold & Silver Mining in California. Located in Mono County, Ca. Lake District. #147, I/U, 50 shares @ $50 par to Ellis Edwards Trustee and signed as secretary Company Certificate Rare with president signature. Black, no seal, vignette mountain scene with and beautiful stock certificate miners moving ore, bear on bottom. EF Fred Holabird Collection Est. issued the Oro Fino Gold & $500-1000 HWAC# 123168 Silver Mining Company in 1866 to Ben T. Leeley. Signed by president Wm. S. Corwin Lot# 3425 New Alamaden, and Miles Hadson, secretary. California 1915-1917 Two Red revenue stamp in upper New Alamaden Quicksilver right corner. The mine is located in the Inyo Mining District in Tulare Mining Stock Certificates County along the Owens River Cert is in excellent condition with no obvious cancellation. See photos for more details. Est. $600-900 Lot of 2 different. 1) The HWAC# 122855 Quicksilver Mining Company. Stock no. A3818, issued for 5 shares to Jacquelin & Lot# 3423 Mammoth Lake, California 1879 DeCappet in Dec. 1917. Signed Metallic Consolidated by the president and secretary. Gold and Silver Mining Not cancelled. Blue border, Company Stock, black print, and vignette Lake District, near of miners pouring molten material. National Bank Note Mammoth Lakes # 95 Co. Folds, pinholes, creases. for 495 shares to F. M. 2) Stock Trust Certificate of Adams, trustee. Signed The Quicksilver Investment by Ellis Edward secretary Company, Inc. Issued in 1915. and H. Mayer president. Dateline San Francisco, December 29, 1879. Not cancelled. Green border and background, black print. ABN. Folds Incorporated in July of 1879. Black on yellow. No printer. Mill scene and creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113711 vignette. Also allegorical lady soldier on left. Stamped, “Location Lake District, Mono Co., Cal.” Vertical folds. No corner, edge of discoloration issues. Extremely nice. The Mammoth or Lake district Lot# 3426 New Almaden, California 1916 is in southwestern Mono County about 50 miles south of Bridgeport. and 1918 Two Different New Almaden The district is on the east flank of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Quicksilver Mines Corp. Stocks Lot of two is just east of Mammoth Lakes, a well-known resort area. The Devil’s different. 1) No. 51, issued in 1918 for 100 Postpile National Monument is about 10 miles to the west. Gold and shares. Blue border and background. Punch silver-bearing veins were discovered here in 1878, and a short-lived cancelled. ABN. 2) No. 74, issued in 1916 for 81 shares. Brown border “rush” followed. Much of the production at that time was from the and background. Punch cancelled. This company was formed in 1915. Mammoth mine, which yielded $200,000 in 1878-81. The district was The mine ran intermittently after 1927 and eventually closed. It was organized in 1887. Several thousand people were in the area then, the purchased by the county and is now part of Almaden Quicksilver principal settlements having been Mammoth City, Mill City, and Pine County Park. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113712 City. The value of the total production of the district is estimated at $1 million. [Western Mining History] Fred Holabird Collection Est. $500- Lot# 3427 Placer Co., California 1909 1000 HWAC# 123170 Eureka Consolidated Drift Mining Co. Stock Certificate Stock Certificate for the Eureka Consolidated Drift Mining Co., incorporated 1888, issued for 16,230 shares to Nathan Joseph. This is about 3.25% of the total issued stock at that time. Approx 9.75 x 5 inches. Signed by E.T. Leach, president, and A.H. Ginnzburger, secretary. Est. $40-50 HWAC# 88422 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 163

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3428 Saline Valley, California 1912 Saline Lot# 3432 California 1878 & 1879 Two 1870s Valley Salt Company Stock with Saline Valley California Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 2 vignette Number 1299 for 200 shares to John different. 1) Pemberton Hydraulic Gold Mining Hartman. Issued on May 31,1912. Signed by Company. Forest Hill District, Placer County. president Smith and secretary Free Smith. No. 226, issued for 500 shares to PW French in Discoloration along left fold. Good condition. 1879 in Auburn. Signed by president Phillips “The presence of mineable salt in the Saline and secretary Crandall. Not cancelled. Black Valley was noticed as early as 1902, but due print on yellow paper, hydraulic mine vignette. to its inaccessibility, it was not until 1911 that anyone successfully Folds. 2) Scadden Flat Gold Mining Company. and seriously developed the deposit. A 16 square mile deposit 30 feet Grass Valley Mining District. No. 197, issued for 20 0shares in 1878 thick, consisting of a salt (sodium chloride) 98.71 percent pure, was to JW Rutherford. Signed by president Henry Scadden and secretary an attractive gem on the desert floor. In August, 1911, the Trenton Brady. Not cancelled. Black border and print, state seal vignette. Folds, Iron Works received a contract from William Smith’s Saline Valley Salt creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113657 Company to construct a 13 mile aerial wire-rope electric tramway. It was completed in 1913. Two hundred and sixty-eight buckets, each Lot# 3433 Aspen, Colorado 1886, 1892 Two carrying 12 cubic feet of salt, would travel 7,600 feet from the valley Good Aspen Stock Certificates: Mining floor to the top of the Inyo Mountains, and then another 5,100 feet and Telegraph Lot of 2 different. 1) Aspen & down to Tramway, Where a 70 ton mill and employee dwellings were Glenwood Springs Telegraph and Telephone located.” [moahvedesert.net] Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# Company. Stock No. 93, issued for 10 shares to 123278 company vice president Cooley in 1886. SIgned by Cooley and secretary Jacobs. Not cancelled. Lot# 3429 Saltus (Mojave Folds, creases. 2) The Little Rule Mining Desert), California 1925 Company. “Mines at Aspen, Colorado” printed California Salt Company under title. No. 2786, issued for 100 shares to Stock # P154 for 43 shares Albion Little in 1892. Signed by president CE Taylor and the secretary. to Henry McClure. Signed by Not cancelled. Green border and background, black print, and floral president SD Adam. Dated logo with mining vignette. Folds, bends. Situated at the head of the December 1, 1925. Egyptian Ophir Gulch, Roaring Forks District, and located in 1880. Ken Prag sphinx/pyramid/camel Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113760 vignette. Stock advertise the salt as the “Egyptian Brand.” Lot# 3434 Clear Creek County, Colorado Red Hole punch cancelled. Blue on Elephant Mining Co Stock, Clear Creek Co., white. 12.5 x 9”. Fold and light CO 1880 Inc. in New York. Downieville Mining dog ear bottom right. Overall very nice. Located 0.5 mile SW of Saltus, District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, near on the northern margin of Bristol Lake. Bristol Lake is located in San Lawson. Owned the White, White Extension, Bernardino County’s Mojave Desert. It is a Playa Lake in the Basin Boulder Nest, and Free America Lodes situated and Range Province and is the northernmost member of a northwest- on Red Elephant Mountain. No. 1936, issued southeast trending playa lake system that includes Cadiz Lake and for 100 shares to R. Weston in 1880. Signed by President Duran Danby Lake. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 123355 and Secretary Weston. Not cancelled. Vignette of five miners with headlamps working underground. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118613 Lot# 3430 San Francisco, California 1920’s Lot# 3435 Goldfield, Colorado 1900 Gold Ophir & North Butte Mining Stock Knob Mining and Town Site Co. Stock 1000 Certificates A pair of stock certs and a shares of Gold Knob Mining and Town Site Co, mining engineer’s report highlight this lot. #487, Issued, registered and countersigned Included is a stock cert issued by The North to Joy Clark on Jan 27, 1900, signed by James Butte Mining Company, issued 10/29/1926, F. Burn, pres & F W Linha, sec’y raised canceled 10/31/1928. Next is a stock cert company seal, green border. “Gold Knob” is a issued by Ophir Silver Mining Company, issued 2/28/1926, canceled past producer deposit site in the Rocky Mountain System of Co. Not 7/20/1907. There is also a report on Hyman Consolidated Gold Mines considered to be of world-class significance. Prag collection. Est. Co. presented on 7/14/1916. All items are in good condition. Please $100-200 HWAC# 88406 see photos for more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 119345 Lot# 3436 La Veta, Colorado West Spanish Peak Mining Co Stock Certificate Inc. in Lot# 3431 San Mateo, California 1928, 1951 Wisconsin. Number 469 for 500 shares to Leslie-California Salt Company Stocks Miss Mary Morse. Signed by Charles Mayers on original Alvinza Property Lot of four. and H. J. Veerhusen. Purple mountain vignette. 1) Green. 1928. Number 65 for 100 shares. Hole punch cancelled. Gold seal. Democrat Publishing Company of Bull vignette. 2) Dark Brown. Unissued. Bull vignette. Hole punched Madison, Wisconsin. Located 9 mile south of Schwabacher Frey Co. 3) Light brown. 1951. Has a fabulous vignette of La Veta, Colorado. The summit of West Spanish the salt operation. Hole punched. 4) Same as number 1, but unissued. Peak is the highest point in Las Animas County, Colorado. Hard to The Leslie Salt Company was established in 1903 and in 1948, the find certificate and in excellent condition. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 company was purchased by Cargill Salt. Between 1903 and 1924 the HWAC# 118614 company was named “Leslie Salt Refining Company.” After 1924, the name was modified to “Leslie-California Salt Company.” “In 1903, Lot# 3437 Leadville, Colorado Amie C. E. Whitney, a dredger by trade, bought 200 acres of land south of Consolidated Mining Co Stock, Leadville, Alvinza Hayward’s property, east of the railroad tracks in San Mateo 1883 Cert. #15314, issued in 1883 for and developed a salt-evaporating business. The railroad that ran 100 shares. The company’s mines were at through San Mateo was ideal for transporting the bulky material to the Leadville, Colorado. Vignette of prospectors market and there was a cheap, abundant labor supply in the area that and a donkey. Allegorical females at each side. would work for the $5.40 he paid for the six-day workweek.” [Daily In excellent, uncanceled condition. ABN, New Journal,San Mateo] Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-2000 HWAC# 123382 York. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118607 164 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3438 Leadville, Colorado 1891 Denver Lot# 3443 Dakotas Farmer’s & Trader’s City Consolidated Mining Company Stock Bank of Kimball, Dakota Stock, D.T. 1886 # 239 for 100 shares to JD Brewster. Signed Very rare stock certificate from Dakota by Hart as secretary and Dyes Jr as president. Territory. Cert. #60, issued for 5 shares to Dateline Denver, April 18, 1891. Mill scene in H.M. Sprague in 1886, and signed by H.E. Gates valley vignette. Mines located in” Lake County, as president. Small float with only 250 total Colorado.” Two vertical folds. Otherwise in shares authorized with total capital of $25,000. extra fine condition with no edge, corner or We don’t believe we have ever seen this one before. Journal Print, discoloration issues. Printed by C&C Litho. of Denver. The Denver City Sioux City. VF. Uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 118582 Consolidated Mining Company operated from 1880-1898. Located on Yankee Hill [Colorado Museum History Collection] The company Lot# 3444 Owyhee County, Idaho 1887 owned a series of claims adjoining a famous Leadville mine and floated Proustite Mining Company Stock Certificate the claims as the Denver City Consolidated Silver Mining Company. “Location of Works, Idaho Territory” (printed Very little silver ore was ever brought to the surface. The company under title). Inc. in Maine. No. 161, issued for owned interest in the Denver City, Shamus O’Brien and Quadrilateral 100 shares to JD Brewster in 1887. Signed claims on Fryer Hill in the California district. Fred Holabird Collection Est. by the Hooker(?) and secretary Kraft. Not $80-120 HWAC# 123178 cancelled. Green border, black print, and allegorical vignette. Pinholes, folds, dog ear bottom left. According to Lot# 3439 Leadville, Colorado 1881 the Report of the Governor of Idaho, 1878, the company owned the Two Different Leadville Mining Stock Henrietta Mine and 10-stamp mill in the Wagontown District, Owyhee Certificates: Denver City and Miner Boy Lot County. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123179 of 2 different. 1) The Denver City Consolidated Silver Mining Company. Issued in 1881 for Lot# 3445 Idaho 1887-1888 Three Different 100 shares. Not cancelled. Attractive design with ornate border and 1880s Idaho Mining Stock Certificates Lot logo. Pinholes, folds, chip along edge. Kendall Bank Note. 2) The Miner of 3 different. 1) Columbia and Beaver Silver Boy Mining Company. Issued in 1881 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Mining Company. Sawtooth District, Alturas Black border and print, green background, and underground mining County. Issued in 1887 for 100 shares. Not vignette. Folds, pinholes, and creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 cancelled. Pinholes, folds, creases. 2) Shoshone HWAC# 113681 Gold Mining Company. Cassia County. Issued in 1888 for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Pinholes, folds. Nice vignette of Westward expansion. Lot# 3440 Leadville, Colorado 1881 and 1882 3) The Lucky Boy Gold and Silver Mining Company of Idaho. Sawtooth Two Different Leadville Mining Stocks: District, Alturas County. Signed by the president and secretary but not Carbonate Hill and Paris Consolidated Lot of 2 issued, 188-. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113763 different. 1) Carbonate Hill Consolidated Mining Company. Issued in 1881. Not cancelled. Mining Lot# 3446 Deer Lodge County, Montana New vignette. Folds, stain on left border. 2) The Paris State Mining Co Stock issued to Lee Mantle, Consolidated Mining Company of Colorado. Issued Montana Senator & Partner Cert. # 394, in Leadville in 1882. Not cancelled. Mining vignette issued in 1890 at Butte, Montana to Mantle plus vignette of train passing a mountain. Folds, and Warren for 100 shares. The company’s stains, missing lower left corner. Ken Prag Collection property was located at Oro Fino mining Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113679 district, Deer Lodge County, Montana. Lee Mantle was one of the founders of Butte and later became U.S. Senator Lot# 3441 Park County, Colorado Colorado Gold Mining from Montana. He was also nominated by the territorial governor to & Smelting Co Stock Certificate & Gold Bond (2) be a delegate at the Silver Convention in St. Louis in 1889. Mantle is Two pieces. A common stock certificate issued in 1911 also considered by some as the fourth Copper King. After leaving the and a gold bond from the company issued in 1902. The Senate, Mantle resumed his business interests. With partner Charles S. company acquired the Alma branch of the Boston and Warren, he held ownership stakes in the Silver Bow Electric Company, Colorado Smelting Company in 1908. Company invested commercial real estate, mines, insurance companies, and publishing in area mines including the Excelsior and Kentucky houses. The certificate is VF and is uncanceled. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Belle. The large Boston and Colorado smelter building 118606 was demolished and the wood was used to construct the new smelter at Alma Junction, which began operations Lot# 3447 Montana 1887 Two in 1910. This company venture quickly failed (Park County Historic Pictorial Montana Mining Landmark Nomination- internet). Both pieces are uncanceled. The Stock Certificates Lot of 2 bond certificate has 11 coupons attached. Est. $120-250 HWAC# different. 1) Big Hole Placer 118596 Mining Company. Logan Mining District, Beaver-head County, Lot# 3442 Sherman, Hinsdale County, Colorado Montana. No. 254, issued for 1895 Black Wonder & West End Gold Mining 1,225 shares to Sallie Whaley Co. Stock Certificate “of Sherman, Hinsdale on May 13th, 1887. Signed Co., Colorado.” Inc in 1895 in CO. No. 447, by president J. Beatire and issued for 25 shares to EW Spalding on Oct. secretary Dix. Not cancelled. 8, 1895. Signed by president HA Stearns and Black border and print with treasurer JH Allen. Not cancelled. Ornate black hydraulic mining vignette. border and print. Nice mill site vignette in the Folds, creases, light toning. 2) mountains with some of the mines hafts identified by name. Mines Penn Yann Mining Company. labeled on the mountain include the Black Wonder mine, Come Up Unissued. One of the most Mine, Olive mine and the West End mine. Folds, creases. 6.75 x 8.75” desired mining stocks because Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113696 it has vignettes of 9 US coins! Light wear. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113761 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 165

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3448 Aurora, Nevada 1861 First North Lot# 3452 Esmeralda County, Nevada 1881- Extension Esmeralda Mining Co. Stock 1882 Three Different State Line Gold Mining Certificate Inc. March 1861. No. 78, issued Company Stock Certificates Lot of 3 different. for 5 shares to Isaac Kirkpatrick on July 15th, Gold Mountain District, Esmeralda County. 1) 1861 in San Francisco. Signed by Alex. Gamble, State Line Gold Mining Company No. 3. Issued president, and Solon Pattee, secretary. Not for 50 shares to LR Taylor in 1881. Signed by cancelled. Beautiful design by Britton & Co. Grey background, fancy the vice president and secretary. Not cancelled. logo, vignette of child with dog. Folds, some creasing and toning. 5.5 Orange border, black print, and underground mining vignette. x 9” Pattee was the secretary for a number of Aurora mines, including Pinholes, folds. 2) State Line Gold Mining Company No. 1. Issued for the Wide West. Gamble is listed in the SF directory as being in the 50 shares to LR Taylor in 1881. Not cancelled. Black border and print, mining business. Clemens never mentioned this mine and its activity vignette of two prospectors. Pinholes, folds. 3) State Line Gold Mining is unknown. The original district was ten miles square and named by Company No. 2. Issued for 50 shares to Hagen & Billing in 1881. Not M.J. Corey, one of the three original discovers in the summer of 1860. cancelled. Brown border, black print, and two vignettes. Pinholes, James Braly, E.R. Hicks, and Corey were camped at Esmeralda Hill folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113693 when Hicks went out to shoot some game for breakfast. He noticed quartz outcrops, and brought back chunks to camp. They tested them Lot# 3453 Goldfield, Nevada 1906 Goldfield for quartz and gold. The first claim was the Old Winnemucca Ledge, Mining Stock Certificates (8) Eight mining located August 25, 1860. The first mill was built in June 1861. Within stock certificates including The Goldfield a year, there were ten mills. Ken Prag Collection Est. $400-600 HWAC# Bulldog Mining Corp, issued 100 shares to Fred 113680 Trotter, 100 shares issued by Goldfield Great Bend Mining Co. to W.E Jeske, 1,000 shares Lot# 3449 Comstock, Nevada 1889-1890 Comstock issued to Milton Detch by Goldfield Eureka Tunnel Company Stock Certificate & Bond Lot of Mining Company, 100 shares of Goldfield Daisy 2 different for this company that operated the Sutro Mining Syndicate stock issued to Seligman & Meyer, 500 shares of Tunnel on the Comstock. 1) $500 bond issued in 1889. Black Butte Extension Mining Company stock issued to W.L. Cox, 1,000 Signed by Theodore Sutro as president and secretary shares of Black Butte Bonanza Mining Company issued to G. Layne, HH Thayer. Punch cancelled. 54 coupons attached. 2) 100 shares of Goldfield Belmont Mining Company issued to S.M.L. Stock certificate issued for 100 shares to HB Hammond Firth and 1,000 shares of Goldfield Ruby Hill Mining Company stock to in 1890. Sam corporate signatures. Not cancelled. Both Robert Kline. Also included is a letter regarding stock in the Goldfield have an orange border and bald eagle vignette. Ken Prag Bulldog Mine. All documents are in very good condition. See photos for Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113676 more details. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 88430 Lot# 3450 Comstock, Virginia Lot# 3454 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Nonpareil City, Nevada 1874 & 1894 Two Bullfrog Gold Mining Company Prospectus / Different Comstock Mining Advertisement This is an advertisement from the Stocks: Goodman and Yellow Mims-Sutro Company that passes as a prospectus. Jacket Lot of 2 different. 1) Four pages. 8.5 x 6”. No photos or charts. Has rips Goodman Gold & Silver Mining and tears, but still in good condition. This property is Company. Devil’s Gate Mining located 3/4 of a mile from the famed Beatty Hazelton. District (near Silver City). Its mining claims are the Nonpareil, National, Atlantic, No. 178, issued in 1874 to DG Original and Combination on 100 acres. Located Corbett for 500 shares. Signed int eh Bullfrog District. “A Rare Opportunity!” Fred by president John Mills and Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123173 secretary Miles Goodman. Not cancelled. Black border and print, two mining vignettes. HS Lot# 3455 Goldfield, Nevada 1906 Round Crocker & Co. Folds, creases. 2) Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company. Mountain Antelope Mining Stock 100 shares Gold Hill. No. 41503, issued in 1894 for 50 shares to HG Kuhl. Signed in Round Mountain Mining Company, nice by the president and secretary; signatures cut out. Allegorical vignette. vignettes, gold seal, next is 1,200 shares in Pinholes, stamp and cut cancelled. Site of the Comstock’s worst mining Round Mountain Antelope Mining Company, disaster (a fire). Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 113655 green seal, third, is a cert for 1,000 shares of Mustang Mining Company of Manhattan stock. with gold seal. All are in good condition. See photos for more details. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 88431 Lot# 3451 Esmeralda County, Nevada State Line Gold Mining Lot# 3456 Lincoln County, Nevada Tem Company Stocks, Full Set of Piute Mining & Milling Co Stock Certificate, four #1- #4 Nice collectible Nevada, 1907 Stock certificate No. 45, issued set of all four State Line Gold for 2,000 preferred shares to Robert G. Mining Stocks. Includes State White in 1907. Signed by Robert F. Whitmer, Line GMC No. 1, State Line GMC president, and Robert M. Catts, treasurer. Not #2, State Line GMC #3, and cancelled. Green border, black print, ornate State Line GMC #4. All four logo and Native American bust vignette. Inc. in were issued in 1881 and have Delaware. The Tem Piute group was located 66 miles west of Pioche different vignettes. Location in Lincoln County, Nevada. Mine properties include the Jamestown, of mines was the Gold Mountain mining district, Esmeralda County, Jamestown Extension, Legal Tender, Sterling, Standard, Colchis, Utica, Nevada. All four certificates are in very good condition and are Chatagua, Terminus, Old Abraham and South End. According to Paher, uncanceled. American Bank Note Company, New York. Est. $300-600 silver was found at Tempiute in 1865 and the district was organized HWAC# 118610 in 1868. In 1916, tungsten was found in the area. Attractive certificate has some wear on the top edge near the fold lines. Uncanceled. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 118592 166 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3457 Lot# 3459 Virginia City, Rhyolite, Nevada Nevada 1865 Rare, Early Mines on North Gould & Curry Stock Side of Rhyolite Certificate This is one of Stock Certs the rare early Gould & Curry (4) Four stock stocks, one of possibly only certificates of a dozen known. It was one mines on north of the key producers on the side of Rhyolite Comstock. Datelined San township: 1) 100 Francisco Jan. 13, 1865. shares of Tramp This is two months after C o ns o lid at e d Nevada became a state. Cert #3240 issued to D. R. Patten for 4 shares. Mining Co Signed by A. F. Alpheus Bull president and J.M. Shorwell, secretary. #D628 issued, Incorporated on June 27, 1860 [when this area was still part of the countersigned and Utah Territory]; capitalized at $2,400,000; 4800 shares @ $500 per. registered May 9, 1906. Incorp. South Dakota, March 1906. Issued to Vignette of Mt. Davidson at center. A small piece is missing from the H. L. H. Blair. Signed Henry B Davis, pres. Printed American Bank Note vignette in the mountain. Adhesive revenue on front. Cancelled May Co. Phila. 2) 1100 shares of Sunset Mining & Development Co. #6497 24, 1865. Black border on white paper. 6 x 9.” Trimmed tight at left issued to Fred S. Martin, signed registered and countersigned on Dec end. The Gould & Curry began as two adjacent mining claims of Gould 1, 1915 by Edw. S. Van Dyck, pres. Raised company seal. Incorp. in & Co. and Curry & Co. located between the Savage and Best & Belcher NV. Printed: R. J. Oz Co.Litho. S F 3) 100 shares of Gibraltar Mines mines in the central part of the Comstock lode. Located in early 1859 Syndicate #6834 issued to Benj Hartzell. Inc in South Dakota, issued as one of the first Comstock claims, it is named after Abram Curry, one Sept 12, 1907. Signed M.V.. Rice, pres and E. G. Kidder, Asst Sec. Mine of the first settlers into Carson City, and Alva Gould. Both men sold out located in Bullfrog, NV. Orange company seal and border. Vignette of their interest in the claim for an aggregate sum of less than $10,000. Indian on rock, ocean with sail boat in background. Printed: The W. The G&C was the first major mining company to build their own mills, H. Kistler Stationery Co., Denver. 4) 357 shares of Peerless Bullfrog two in 1861 and one in 1863. The stock rose to $6300 per foot in June Mining Co. #2382 dated Dec 3, 1906. Issued to Nathan Kraruer. 1863, or about $1600 per share, after Comstock mine production went Signed J. M. Howorth, assist secy Robertson, pres. Raised orange from $6 million in 1862 to $12 million in 1863. Among the original company seal, orange border with black ink. Incorp. South Dakota. incorporators were George Hearst, Lloyd Tevis, John Earl, Alpheus Vignette of miners working in mine. Printed: New York Bank Note Bull, Thos. Bell, A. Head, B.F. Sherwood, and Wm. Blanding. William Co.Prag collection. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 88414 Chapman Ralston was initially appointed treasurer, and Charles Strong the mine superintendent. Shareholders George Hearst, William Lent and John Earl, would all go on to be instrumental in the building Lot# 3458 Rochester, Nevada of the new mill at the junction of Six and Seven Mile canyons that was Nevada Milling & Mining Co completed in 1863 and later sold and dismantled after 1870. The mine stock Mining stock from Lincoln produced over $17 million in gold and silver and was the primary Hill Milling and Mining Co and financial motivating machine in 1863 that changed Virginia City from Rochester Hills Mining Co. in a good mining region to a great one. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $800- Rochester, NV: 1) 1,000 shares 1200 HWAC# 123162 Lincoln Hill Milling and Mining Co., cert # 578. Incorp. in NV April 8, Lot# 3460 Nevada Bullfrog Mines 1913, gold seal with grey border Stock Certificates (2) Two stocks issued to Frank Forvilly. Located certificates from Bullfrog Gold Bar in Pershing County and Rochester Mining Company and Homestake District Mining District. Vignette of King Consolidated Bullfrog Mining Abraham Lincoln. Signed by Fred & Milling co. 1) 500 shares Bullfrog W. Kittle, resident agent. 2) 1,000 Gold Bar Mining Co.cert #1433 shares Rochester Hills Mining Co. issued to W.A. Sherman issued Sept cert. 1634. Incorp. Jan 10, 1913, 117, 1906. Signed by Jas R. David, raised company seal . Issued to R.G. Vice Pres and G Ma Asst Secy. Gold Gusler. Signed by G.H. Coats, secy. company seal. Grey border with and A.A. Todd, pres. on July 1, 1915. black ink. Vignette with eagle Located in Humboldt Co, Rochester landing. Incorp. South Dakota, Mining District, 20 miles northeast of Lovelock on Southern Pacific February, 1905. 2) 200 shares railroad line. Named Rochester because of the pioneers who have Homestake King Consolidated come from Rochester, NY in early 1860’s. Prag collection. Est. $100- 150 HWAC# 88400 Bullfrog Mining & Milling Co. cert #3469 issued to Leo Froman on Jan. 12, 1909. Orange seal and border, printed in gray. Vignette of women with wreath. Signed by B. D. Milaw pres. and Geo L. Schumaker,, sec. Incorp. AZ. Company located at Gold Bar, 2 miles north of Bullfrog. Produced about $55,000 in gold in 1909. Lawsuit between the Gold Bar Co and the Homestake King due to the Homestake mining under the Gold Bar property. 25-stamp mill of the Homestake-King Consolidated Mining and Milling Company, at Rhyolite, was started up in June, 1908. The process of working the ore was devised and elaborated by the California Ore Testing company of SF. Mechanical features of the plant were designed by John E Rothwell, of Colorado Iron Works, Denver . Prag collection. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 88415 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 167

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3461 Nevada Lot# 3463 Bullfrog Mining stock Nevada 1865 Three stock certificates Eagle Mining for Bullfrog Mining Company of stock: 1) 1,000 shares Nevada Stock of Bullfrog-Banner Mines C e rtific at e , Co. #220 issued to R. W. 1865 A RARE Dennis on March 1, 1908. Eagle Mining Gold co. seal and green Company stock border. Incorp. in South cer tificat e. Dakota. Mine located at Measures 12 1/8 Bullfrog, NV. Printed: x 8”. Incorporated Utah Lithographing Co. in Pennsylvania. SLC. 2) 1,000 shares of Certifies John Pool is authorized seventy-five shares. Signed by James Bullfrog-Red Oak Mining Mae Nichol as Treasurer and Morehead as president. Bald eagle Co #232 issued to C. L. Bullard on March 14, 1907 by E. S. Sulson, secy. vignette standing on a globe. Peach-colored print and border. Large Gold seal, green border and paper with black ink. Vignette of eagle. blue company seal. Red twenty-five cent revenue stamp. Manuscript Incorp in Utah. 3) 100 shares of Bullfrog Syndicate Mining Co #604 cancelled. Illegible signature next to it. Endorsed on the reverse by issued to C. S. Huichman on June 19, 1909 by W. E Pasiuent, secy and three different people. No 9. Very Fair condition, yellowing around the Rudel, V. Pres. Incorp. in South Dakota. Grey border. Raised company edges with small tears, stains and deep folds. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_ seal. Printed: The W.H. Kistler Stat’Y Co., Denver. Prag collection. Est. x000D_ There are two possibilities for this company. 1) The Eagle $150-250 HWAC# 88413 Mining Company mmight be the same Eagle Company described by Hollister (Mines of Colorado, 1867, p248-9) in the Union District near Lot# 3462 Nevada Bullfrog the town of Empire, not far from Georgetown, and now the gateway to Mining Stocks (3) Three Mining Rocky Mountain National Park off I-70. They owned interest in several Bullfrog mining stocks: 1) Pioneer producing companies, inclusive of two mills. Their mines included: the Consolidated Mines Co 2) Diamond Ben Franklin, Knapp, a third interest in the Pine Silver Mining Co. Their Queen Mining Co 3) Gold Center first year was marked with controversy, as the officers took home Mining and Development Co.1) $35,000 in salaries on little or no production, and then got booted 1,000 shares Pioneer Consolidated out by shareholders. 2) Possibly Churchill County. There was a Gray Mines Co #6637 issued to A. Eagle mine there at the same time that also had Philadelphia investors. Sndgren on Dec 21, 1915. Orange Incorporated in Pennsylvania. No. 216, issued for 50 shares to John A seal and border. Vignette of mine in Evers on May 20th, 1865. Signed by James Mae Nichol as treasurer hill. Printed: The Smith-Brooks Co., and Turner G. Morehead as president. 25c revenue stamp on front and Denver. CO. Inc in WY, mine located back. Bald eagle vignette standing on a globe. Peach-colored print and in Nye County, Bullfrog, NV, north of border. Large blue company seal. Red twenty-five cent revenue stamps Rhyolite. Mine produced millions on front and back. Stains, folds. Fading. Not to be confused with the in gold from 2 different types of Eagle Gold Mining Company of Colorado, also incorporated in 1865 in ore deposits and veins consisted Pennsylvania. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 60640 of 12 claims on 180 acres. Quick Lot# 3464 Nevada Nevada Mining Stocks growth of Pioneer Mine increased Includes Two Rare Ones (4) Lot of four population to over 1,000 by 1909. different. Includes: Tonopah Superior Gold Fire burned the buildings in town Mining Company, cert. #2 , issued for 3 shares in in 1909 that destroyed town. Town 1903. Very rare. Also, Borussia Nevada Mining rebuilt, but never recovered. Mine collapsed in 1914 and shut down. Company, 1908, also rare. Rogers - Round Reopened following year but town never recovered although mining Mountain M.C. 1906 and Pioneer Consolidated continued until 1931 when it was no longer showing a profit and town Mines Co. 1914 from Bullfrog round out the lot. All VF and uncanceled. became abandoned. 2) 1,000 shares Diamond Queen Mining Co #110 Est. $120-250 HWAC# 118616 dated July 6, 1908 issued to G A. Webster on July 6, 1908. Gold seal. Signed by J.R. Kernick, pres and F.C. Warburton, secy. 3 Vignettes: 2 Lot# 3465 Nevada Nine Goldfield Mining showing miners working and one mine in valley. Printed: A. Carlisle stock, letter & map A lot of nine Goldfield & Co. S.F. Located in Bullfrog District, NV. at eastern slope of Bare mining stock certificates: 1 Goldfield-Century Mountain 10 miles east of Beatty. 3) 1,000 shares of Gold Center Mining Co 2) Frances-Mohawk Mining and Mining and Development Co cert #477 issued to Charles S. Hinchman Leasing Co 3 Goldfield Madonna Mining Co. on May 29, 1905, gold seal and border. Vignette of snow capped 4) Goldfield-Portland Co cert 5) Gold Horn mountains in oval. Located in Bullfrog Mining District, NV. Printed: Mining Co 6 Home Trust Mining Co 7) Milltown The W.H. Kisler Stationery Co., Denver & W.F. Robinson Ptg Co. Denver. Prag collection. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 88409 Fraction Mining Co cert 8) Potlatch Mining and Milling Co cert 9 Yellow Gold Mining Co cert 10) colored map of mining districts. 11) Hand written letter from Davis & Byler Mining Engineers to H.C. Nelson regarding the Century Lode property and taxes to be paid for 1903. See online for full description Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 88420 168 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3466 Nevada Lot# 3468 Nevada Tonapah Tonopah Mining Seven NV Mining stock (4 certificates) Four mining stocks from stocks from West Tonopah, NV. 1) 100 shares of Golden Anchor Central NV Seven Mining Co. cert #A3880 issued to George W. mining stocks from Likens dated, registered and countersigned West Central, NV. Nov 19, 1906. Green seal, ink and border. 1) 415 shares of Vignette of seated women holding wreath. Pyramid Golden Incorp. Territory of AZ, mine in Tonopah, NV. Printed: Republic Bank Crater Mining Co Note Co. 2) 100 shares Jim Butler Tonopah Mining Co cert #26900 cert #90 dated Se[t issued to Clara Bromberg on Jan 3, 1917. Registered Jan 4, 1917. 20. 1907 issued to Orange seal, ink. Vignette of working minors. Incorp. Delaware, Geo Erdner. Gold mine located Tonopah. Printed: American Bank Note Co., Phila. 3) seal, grey border, 100 shares Tonopah Extension Mining Co cert # 24471 issued to J.W. vignette of man on bike with wings and oval with women on oval Sparks & Co. Signed M.R. Ward, pres. NG. Benham, secy. Dated and object. Gold Crater District, Inc in AZ.2) Unissued Bellehelen Mo-We- countersigned May 25, 1917. Incorp. Arizona, mine located Tonopah, Na Mining Co stock cert # 68, brown seal with vignette of women NV. Grey border on blue paper. 4)100 shares Silver Glance Mining Co in flag. Incorp in NV May 25, 1920, Office in Tonopah, NV. 3) 1,000 of Nevada cert #534 issued to Rhodes Siukler & Butcher on April 23, shares of Butler Gold Mining Co cert #1341 dated Oct 23, 1929 signed 1907 signed Sheldon, secy . Incorp South Dakota March 1906, mine W. E. Sirbeck, pres and Harry B. Ruhl, secy with gold seal. Printed: located Tonopah, NV. Gold seal, Three vignettes of working miners. GOES 56. Three vignettes with working miners. Incorp. Sept 5, 1926 Printed: Nevada Press, Carson City 3355. Prag collection. Est. $100- in NV. 4) Unissued interim certificate for Butler Gold Mining Co capital 120 HWAC# 88433 stock cert #108. Orange border. Incorp. NV. Mine Goldpoint, NV.5) 822 shares Hayseed Mining Co cert # 392 issued to G.A. Webster on Lot# 3469 Nevada West Central Nevada Nov 2, 1907 signed S.T. Lindsey, pres and F. P Kerns, secy. Inc. South Mining Stock Certificates (4) A lot of four Dakota, mine in Lee, Echo Mining District. 6) 1,000 shares Little Chief mining stock certificates from West Central Mining Co of NV, cert #5 on Feb 28, 1929 signed F.C. Morton assist. Nevada: 1) 250 shares of Nevada Hills Secy Orange seal and border. Mine located in Mina, NV. Incorp. in Florence Mining Co cert #163 issued to Edsall, NV, Aug 19, 1922. 7) 2500 shares of Monezuma Silver Mines Corp Key & Co. signed Nov 9, 1906 by S. Geo Tucker, cert #156 issued to H. W. Hoofes on Sept 22, 1919. Grey border, green secy and L L. Caldwell, pres. Silver seal. Incorp. company seal. Vignette of woman with flag, eagle and sield Mines Wyoming. Printed Out West Mtb & Stay Co., Colorado Springs. 2) in Montezuma Mining District, Incorp. in NV with principal office 1,000 shares Nevada Hills Extension Mining Co. cert #281, issued to W. Goldfield, NV. Prag collection. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 88419 M. Stansbury on Jun 5, 1908. Incorp. Wyoming, Mine located Fairview Mining District, NV. Grey border and ink. Vignette with sun rising over Lot# 3467 Nevada Six NEVADA sign looking into mine. Raised company seal. Printed Utah Nevada Miscellaneous Lithographing Co SLC. 3) 1,000 shares of Fairview Extension Mining Co cert #172 issued to Jeb Kindall on Oct 9, 1919. Countersigned and stock certificates A lot of registered Oct 15, 1919. Blue seal and border. Incorp. NV, located 6 Misc. NV Mining District Tonopah, NV. Printed: A. Carlisle & Co S.F. 4) 1,000 shares Fairview- stock certificates: 1) 100 Aztec Mining Co cert # 1373 issued Apr 1, 1912. Raised company seal, shares of Eastern Star brown order. Inc Wyoming, mine Goldfield, NV. Prag collection Est. Mining Co Treasury Stock $150-200 HWAC# 88432 cert #927 issued to Alfre Hardeman dated Aug 2, Lot# 3470 Mogollon Mountains, New Mexico 1913, gold seal signed Geo 1896 Helen Mining Co. Stock Issued to & Pellom pres., L. G. Campbell, Signed by David Moffat Rare and desirable secy. Vignette of miner. certificate with a Western autograph. #272, Assigned Jan 1, 1920 Incorp. issued for 2,800 shares to Colorado railroad in NV. 2) 1,000 shares Black magnate & industrialist David Moffat in 1896 warrior Mines, Inc cert #357 and has his signature is on reverse. Signed by issued to William Rickstein signed Jan 3, 1929 signed Frank Bibby, treasurer Graham and president D. H. Moffat. Small circular air drill Vice Pres. Gold seal, Vignette of mining and workings. Printed Stebb’s vignette. Homer Lee Bank Note Company printer. Orange and black - Printers-1246 S. Main Stt L.A. GOES 93-1/2. 3) Trustee’ Certificate on white. Incorporated in West Virginia, printer in New York, dateline for 300 shares of Gold Circle Consolidated Mines in Boston, MA cert Colorado and mines at Mogolllon Mountains in New Mexico. Folds. #4157 issued to Jackson & Curtes on October 23, 1936. Signed Charles 7.25 x 10.5”. Helen Mining Company operated the mines and the mill E. Dolley, Asst. treas. Brown border, ink and paper. Printed: George in Whitewater Canyon. The mill was powered mainly by electricity. H. Ellis Co. Treasury Stock of 3,683 shares of Kansas City - Nevada The problem was it could not be built close to the mines. The stream Consolidated mines Co #240 issued to Mary L. Coburn with 4 adhesive would dry up in the summer. The canyon was very rough making RN stamps. Printed: George Ferguson Co. Litho K.C. MG. 4) Cancelled building it higher in the canyon problematic. Ken Prag Collection Est. 200 shares of Ruby Hill Tunnel and Mining Co. located in Eureka, NV $200-400 HWAC# 113755 issued to C. L Roof dated March 15, 1883 signed Henry K. Mitchell, pres. 5) 2500 shares Of Nevada Sandard Mininng Corp, cert #2 issued Lot# 3471 Silver City, New Mexico 1880 to James M. Lockhart on Feb 21, 1928. signed J. Hury Goorlurars. pres. Montezuma Silver Mining Co. Stock Office in Ely, NY Incorp. Nevada. Three vignettes: 2 of working miners Certificate Very low No. 9, issued for 200 and one of mine in valley. Gold seal. Printed GOES 51. Prag collection shares on March 18th, 1880 in Galveston, Est. $200-300 HWAC# 88418 Texas to B Furman. Signed by the president M Quin and secretary Charles (?). Not cancelled. Principal Office in Galveston, Texas. Branch Office in Silver City, New Mexico. Mine at Silver City. Milling vignette. Folds, toning. 7.75 x 10” Printed by Strickland, Galveston. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113769 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 169

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Stocks & Bonds / Mining Lot# 3472 New Mexico 1868-1886 Three Lot# 3477 Oregon 1901-1924 Oregon & Different Early New Mexico Mining Stock Washington Mining Stock Group Lot of 8 Certificates Lot of 3 different. 1) New Mexico different. All pictorial. 1) Oregon: Golden Eagle Mining Company. Issued in Washington Mining Co. (Portland, 1901); Yellow Metal City, 1868 for 100 shares to Edward Dodge. Mining Co. (La Grande, 1924); Silver King Signed by president Kidwell and secretary Mining Co. (Albany, 1914); Molalla Central Jones. Not cancelled. Highly detailed vignette Mining Co. (Oregon City, 1904). 2) Washington: showing miners work sluice boxes. Heavy folds, creases, toning. 2) Pacific Consolidated Mines Co. (1910); Arlington Mining Corp. (uniss Massachusetts and New Mexico Consolidated Mining Company. Issued but signed by the president); Acme Consolidated Silver-Lead Mining in 1883 for 200 shares. Pen cancelled. Black border and print. Mine Co. (1906); and Nome Exploration Company (uniss. 190-). Please hoisting vignette. Folds, light wear. 3) The Ironclad Mining Company. inspect. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113762 Low no. 17, issued for 100 shares in 1886. Not cancelled. Maroon border and print with a vignette of a train passing beneath a mountain. Lot# 3478 Lawrence County, South Dakota Folds, creases. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113773 1885-1905 Three Different Black Hills Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 different. Lot# 3473 New Mexico 1879-1881 Three 1) Double Standard Mining Company. Lead Different New Mexico Mining Stock City, D.T. Issued in 1890 for 200 shares to JW Certificates Lot of 3 different. 1) The Curran. Pen and stamped cancelled. Pinholes, Massachusetts and New Mexico Mining folds. 2) Father De Smet Consolidated Gold Mining Company. Black Company. No. 317, issued for 100 shares in Hills, Lawrence County. Issued in 1885 for 100 shares to C. Hanvier. 1879 in Boston. Pen cancelled. Black, red, and Signed by Haggins as president, punch cancelled signatures. Haggins gold print. Small miner vignette. Folds, creases, was a close associated of George Hearst. Native American vignette. some toning. 2) The Plymouth Rock Mining Company. No. 475, issued Pinholes, folds, some soiling. 3) The Globe Gold Mining Company. for 5 shares in 1880 in Boston. Pen cancelled. Black border and print Lead, South Dakota. Issued in 1905 for 1,000 shares to Mrs. Belle J. with underground mining vignette. Folds, toning. 3) Massachusetts Bull. Not cancelled. Eagle vignette. Folds, creases. Ken Prag Collection and New Mexico Consolidated Mining Company. No. 1309, issued for Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113768 500 shares in 1881 in Portland, Maine. Pen cancelled. Black border and print, vignette of prospectors. Pinholes, folds, some staining. Ken Lot# 3479 Utah Ohio Copper Company of Utah Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113770 Stock Certificates (10) Lot of 10 Ohio Copper Company of Utah Stock Certificates, 1947. Brown Lot# 3474 Plattsburgh, New York 1922 border. Utah copper mine. Believed to have operated Farmers Standard Carbide Company Stock the Columbia and Erie mines in Bingham Canyon. with vignette of massive factory # 2690 11.5” x 8.25”. Nice vignette of miners drilling rock. for 2 shares to CHN Risley. Carbide factory is Handsigned. Inc. in Maine. City: Salt Lake City State: the vignette. Some upper border rips. Folds, Utah Est. $50-150 HWAC# 124823 “Following World War 1, the old mill building became home to the “Farmers’ Standard Lot# 3480 Utah 1879-1892 Three Different Carbide Company,” which manufactured Utah Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 calcium carbide. “Carbide Road” in Plattsburgh, which was once the different. 1) The Atlanta Mining Company. access road to the mill, still bears the name. This industry, however, West Tintic Mining District. Issued in 1870 proved to be relatively short lived and by the 1930s, the former mill had for 100 shares. Not cancelled. Great vignette been abandoned and mostly left to fall into ruins.” [ghosttourcompany, of Atlas holding the world on his shoulder. Facebook] Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 123415 Folds, wear to edges. 2) Daly Mining Company. Uintah Mining District, Lot# 3475 North Carolina Cabarrus Gold Summit County. Issued in 1887 for 25 shares. Stamp cancelled. Gold & Silver Mining Stock of Cabarrus County, title and small vignette. Pinholes, folds, creases. 3) Park City Mining Company. Uintah Mining District. Issued in 1892 for 71,042 shares. North Carolina Very nice, unissued certificate Not cancelled. Pinholes, folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# from this North Carolina mining company. 113686 18XX. A couple of brown spots at bottom right corner. The first documented discovery of gold Lot# 3481 Utah 1881-1899 Three Different in the United States happened in Cabarrus Utah Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 County. In 1799, 12-year-old Conrad Reed different. 1) The New Bedford Silver Mining discovered a 17-pound gold nugget in Little Meadow Creek. Today, Company of Utah. Issued in SLT in 1881 for Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site is the only underground gold mine 150 shares. Signed by vp Barnes and secretary in North Carolina open to the public (google.com). This Carolina gold Barnes. Not cancelled. Folds, creases, eagle rush was the first gold rush in the United States. Est. $40-80 HWAC# 118588 vignette. 2) Apex Mining Company. Issued in 1884 for 300 shares. Park City. Not cancelled. Gold border and title. Lot# 3476 North Carolina Davidson Copper Pinholes, folds, creases. 3) Sunbeam Consolidated Mining Company. Mining Stock Certificate, No. Carolina, 1867 Issued in 1899 for 2,500 shares. Stamp cancelled. Background vignette of sun in clouds. Folds, small tears along edges. Ken Prag Collection Est. Chartered 1861 by state of North Carolina. $150-300 HWAC# 113685 Office in Baltimore, Maryland. No. 789. Issued for 100 shares to Gootie in 1867. Signed by Lot# 3482 Utah 1880-1893 Three Different president (Williams) and secretary (Brooks). Utah Mining Stock Certificates Lot of 3 25 cent US IR adhesive stamp with tied cancel. different. 1) Uintah Mining Company. Issued Vignette of a smelter scene. Slight damage at for 100 shares in 1880. Not cancelled. Mining top left corner. Uncancelled. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 118587 vignette. Folds. 2) Stormont Mining Company of Utah. Issued for 100 shares in 1882. Not cancelled. Fabulous vignette of two children standing on giant US coins! Pinholes, folds. 3) The Tintic Mining and Milling Company. Issued for 200 shares in 1893. Stamp cancelled. Mining vignette. Folds. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113684 170 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Minerals Lot# 3483 Utah 1889-1892 Utah Mining Lot# 3487 Stocks, Stamps, Stock Certificate Group Lot of 5 different: Leather, and Horses three issued, two unissued. 1)Niagara Mining Eclectic lot includes very and Smelting Company. 1892. Punch cancelled. rare Cori Gold Mines Mining vignette. 2) Sampson Mining Company. Company stock certificate 1891. Pen cancelled. Underground mining No. 750, incorporated vignette. 3) The Cactus Mining Company. in Delaware, signed by 1889. Frisco. Eagle vignette. Coupons attached. 4) Unissued Utah Treasurer Tom Atwater, Jr, Mutual Tunnel and Silver Mining Company. 1870s. Mining vignette. President LJ Wheeler, issued 5) Unissued Read Mining Company. 1890s. Mining vignette. Ken Prag to EG Thomas for 1000 Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 113683 shares on Feb 15, 1923. Also a Newtown Mining Lot# 3484 Virginia Stony Company stock certificate Man Mining Company No. 202, unmarked number Stock, Virginia, 1859 Rare of shares, issued in Nevada and very early. Number City, Calif., to Charles Hayes 113, issued for 20 shares to on July 17, 1924, signed by president [illegible]. Lot includes three Martha Barker on May 17th, sheets of different postage stamps: 35 Ohio Sesquicentennial 3-cent 1859. Signed by secretary intact, brown; 25 Louisiana Purchase Sesquicentennial 3-cent intact, WIlliam Danforth and maroon; 25 of the 50th Anniversary of the Trucking Industry 3-cent, president Josiah Barker. violet. This lot also has a 10-1/2 x 8-1/2 inch framed black and white Not cancelled. Unusual print of several African-American jockeys riding horses. Last item is underground mining a tooled leather folio with circular monogram P C W. Interior has a vignette! Folds, very nice condition. 6 x 10.25” “In 1854 Samuel and zippered flap but no pouch attached to hold anything. See photo for Maria Williams of Brooklyn, New York purchased 21,371 acres of details of this lot. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124613 land in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for $4,750. One year later the land was passed on to the Virginia Cliff Copper Company for Lot# 3488 1980’s Two $1,000,000, although only $7,000 was ever actually tendered. Soon Joseph Seagram Stock 5,371 acres of the tract were sold to the newly incorporated (January Certificates Two rare Joseph 1858) Stony Man Mining Company for $550,000 of stockholder funds. Seagram & Sons Inc. stock In 1866, the Miners Lode Copper Company (incorporated in NYC in certificates. One is unissued 1865) purchased the property.” [nps.gov] Today this is all part of the and in excellent condition. Shenandoah National Park and Skyland. VF. Uncancelled. Est. $600- 1000 HWAC# 118586 The second one was issued 4/16/1987 for $100,000. It has a cancel date of Lot# 3485 Washington 8/19/1987. It too is in nice Kimball Creek Mining condition. Please see photos Company Stock, King’s for more detail and condition. County, Washington, Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 119381 1902 Cert. #590, issued in 1902 for 2222 shares. The company operated the Black Bear, Charles, Cooper, Delamar and Skookum Lodes in the Money Creek district, Kings County, Washington. Five revenue Minerals stamps at left. VF. Uncancelled. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 118584 Lot# 3489 Hematite or Iron- Bearing Crystalline Slag Hey, big, Lot# 3486 1907 dark and mysterious... Here is a Rosebud Mining nearly 17-pound piece of natural Certificate/Golden hematite or iron-bearing slag with Triangle Stock striking black tabular radiating Certificate 1000 crystals and a magnetic personality. shares certificate What else could you want for an issued by The impressive mineral specimen to Rosebud Consolidated display on your desk or bookshelf? Mines Company, Est. $100-200 HWAC# 108740 incorporated February 1907. Cert issued to R.J. Gevillim and signed by Joseph Heydar, secretary and President Henry Anderson. Orange seal affixed. Next, is a Golden Triangle Mining Company issued to H.W. Lawrence July 13, 1907. Signed by mine president George W. Morgan and secretary Ed Cofey. Both are in excellent condition, with no cancellation marks apparent. See photos for more details. Est. $150- 300 HWAC# 88434 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 171

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Minerals Lot# 3492 Bodie, California Goodshaw Mine Gold Specimens Two matched pairs of cut vein material from The Goodshaw showing good native gold. The raw ore specimens were cut in half, showing the native gold in banded quartz. The average Goodshaw ore assays 20 oz/t gold and 90 oz/t silver. From the Bell Collection. Long time Bodie resident Bobby Bell (son of noted Bodie miner Lester Bell) located some ground that was an offshoot of the Goodshaw vein and sunk a shaft in the early to mid 1900’s. It wasn’t successful, but he did mine a few boxes full of high grade. When Bobby left Bodie, he moved his big machine shop and his Bodie collection to Luning, NV. These rocks were purchased from Bobby Bell’s estate along with other mining equipment. Specimens here are less than 4”. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 121667 Lot# 3493 Georgia Gold Ore Specimen from Georgia - Very Lot# 3490 Comstock, Nevada Crystalline Gold - Spectacular South Nice! Specimen is 2 Comstock Specimen! The best crystalized specimen to come out x .5 x 1”. Estimated of the Monarch Mine about 1989-90. About 1” cubed, weighing 12.8 nearly 1 ounce of gold. grams. The Monarch is part of the “South Comstock”, in the northern Gold shows across all end of the Pine Nut range, just south of Dayton and east of Gardnerville. four sides. Fred Holabird Fred Holabird Collection Est. $2000-3500 HWAC# 117930 Collection Est. $2000- 3000 HWAC# 123152 Lot# 3494 Virginia City, Nevada VISIBLE GOLD from North Bonanza Mine A great gold specimen worthy that will excite any who look at it. The North Bonanza was in the Flowery District down Six Mile Canyon. Specimen weighs 2.59 ounces Lot# 3491 Bodie, California Bodie Gold Specimens from Goodshaw and one can’t miss the visible gold! The Vein The Goodshaw was one of many high grade gold in quartz veins Flowery District was at Bodie. Located in 1860, the district didn’t really take off until the one mile from the and 1870’s, even though Leland Stanford helped finance a mine there in parallel to the Comstock 1864 called the Bodie Bluff. The Goodshaw has produced some rather District. Located near spectacular disseminated gold specimens. This group contains about the Lady Bryan. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 123117 20 rocks, each with at least one cut edge, that all show a few specks of gold. Here you get to take your chances on cutting the rest of the rocks to see if there are any concentrations of gold inside. The specimens Lot# 3495 El Indio-Pascua Au-Cu-Ag Belt, here, and in this group of four lots all were handed down in a longtime 180 km east of La Serena, Chile, zChile 03-03- engineer’s family. We sold a few specimens from this group several 1992 00:00:00 Pasqua Deposit-(early stage years ago.The raw ore specimens were cut in half, showing the native exploration) Nevada Project - Pasqua Au-Ag-Cu deposit-Silicified gold in banded quartz. The average Goodshaw ore assays 20 oz/t gold fine-grained tuff- 4,900m level near hole collar RDH-23. 4x2x2”. (top and 90 oz/t silver. Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 121668 of ridge at 5166m). Field Guide: staff. (This specimen was found at the mine by a professional geologist who knew what to look for in ore specimens. c1990’s.) Est. $50-100 HWAC# 61136 172 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Mining / Ephemera Lot# 3501 Watson Bros. Glass Encased Mining Balance Watson Bros., Los Angeles Balance. Lot# 3496 yosemite, california Sonora Metal frame. 19.5” x 19” x 9.5”. Circa 1940’s- Yosemite Mining History A binder with a true 60. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125333 history of the Nyman Colsolidates mines by F.C. Bastian in 1924. Also 24 photographs, 8 x 10, with captions on the reverse of mining scenes, old miners, railroads, Yosemite Valley, and other early scenes of the Sonora area. A 1932 Stockton Record cover story on Sonora’s Famous Old Bonanza Mine. Lot# 3502 Val Verde - Humboldt, Arizona Three smaller photos of mining operations. Salvatore Falcone Collection 1900 Ledger of Val Verde Copper Company Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124303 Well-preserved ledger of the Val Verde Copper Lot# 3497 Austin, Nevada Original 1860’s Company in the Big Bug Mining District of Arizona from the year 1900. The company Bullion Punch and Hand Stamp These were operated in the eponymous town of Val Verde, dug by Fred Holabird some years ago. The which the residents renamed to Humboldt bullion punch reads Boalt & (?) / assayers / in 1905. The first pages of this ledger are Austin, Nev. John H. Boalt learned assaying an alphabetical table of contents for the accounting records on the at Freiburg and opened an office in Austin, numbered pages that follow. Many pages remain blank, however, Nevada, but gave it up for a law practice in San Francisco. Boalt Hall notable pages are the Profit and Loss recorded on 104, and Treasury at the University of California, Berkeley is named for him. The hand Stock beginning on page 5. This ledger book may make you appreciate stamp says ‘N C’. Length of each is 4 inches. Fred Holabird Collection Est. the functionality of your Excel spreadsheet, but no computer program $100-200 HWAC# 123150 will render a more elegant presentation of handwritten numbers and Lot# 3498 Columbus, Nevada Miner’s Crude details like this one. Leatherbound, with notable wear on the cover and spine, but the binding is still solid and intact. It is approx. 9-1/2 x Hand Made Candlestick Holder. Here is a 14 inches and about 2 inches thick. Did not find even one torn page in very poor, yet quite unique, candlestick holder. the book. See photos for condition and content details. Est. $300-500 Found at Columbus, Nevada by Fred Holabird. HWAC# 125205 You may never see anything like this again! Length is 4 inches. Fred Holabird Collection Est. Lot# 3503 Jackson, California Kennedy and $50-100 HWAC# 123151 Argonaut Mine Head Frames - 4 B&W Photos The Kennedy and Argonaut Mines in Jackson, California, were producers of gold from great depths of the Mother Lode. Both mines were recovering ore from the same fault system, and the Kennedy became the deepest underground gold mine of its day at 5,912 feet below the surface. In 1919, a fire destroyed all but two of the Kennedy Mine surface buildings, and in 1922, forty-two miners died in a mine fire at the 4,650-foot level of the Argonaut. Rescue was attempted by digging from the then-inactive Kennedy mine, but progress was slow and ultimately unsuccessful. These four black and white photos show the head frames of these two famous mining operations long after production ceased in the 1940s. Framed sizes in inches are 17 x 20-1/2, 15-7/8 x 19-1/2, 15-1/2 x 18- 5/8, and 15-3/8 x 18-5/8. All are professionally framed in black wood (2) and black anodized aluminum (2) and glass. One of the Kennedy photos is unglazed. See photos for details. Est. $300-500 HWAC# 125072 Lot# 3499 Ornate Gold Strongbox, 19th Century, Vanderman Mfg. Lot# 3504 Jackson, California Kennedy Ornate and classic gold strongbox with brass Champion 6 Lever lock Tailing Wheels The Kennedy Mine in Jackson, as original to all the Vanderman boxes. 19.5” deep, 15” tall, 27” long. California, was not only the deepest gold Wood staves riveted to the top and bottom. Bullion stop-handles. Cast mine of its day at 5,912 feet, it also boasted iron reinforced corners, including cast iron corner locking pieces. a 100-stamp mill to process the ore, which Original center top locking mechanism replaced. There is a brass mfg produced a significant amount of tailings -- plaque on the front, but it has been scratched to obscure the original the remaining ground-up rock from which name (which was Vanderman). This is absolutely one of the best gold strong boxes we’ve had in more than a decade. Est. $1000-2500 the valuable metals had been extracted. Even back in the early HWAC# 125330 1900s, miners were prohibited from dumping tailings into rivers and streams, so this fine slurry of material had to be impounded behind a tailings dam. The Kennedy’s tailings were lifted by four, 58-foot Lot# 3500 Touchstone diameter wheels over two hills that lay between the tailings dam and Needles Original This way the stamp mill. Each wheel lifted the tailings slurry to the level of the the jewelers’ original way base of the next wheel and so on. The wheels were originally house in of testing gold by making buildings covered in corrugated sheet steel. When the Kennedy mine a streak on a streak plate was closed in 1942, those wheel buildings were salvaged for the steel, and comparing to a streak and the wheels were exposed. Two have since collapsed, and two are from these needles. This set featured in the Kennedy Tailing Wheels Park in Jackson, California. is marked “US Standard”. 9 These two black and white images are mounted in 16 x 20-inch mattes Needles: 4 to 20 KT. Classic with openings of 10-3/8 x 12-3/4 inches. Some smudges on the 19th century testing method. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 119709 ivory mattes, but otherwise ready to frame. See photos for details on condition and content. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125071 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 173

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Mining / Ephemera Lot# 3505 New Almaden, California 1877- Lot# 3510 Kellogg, Idaho 1915 Bunker Hill 1917 Rare New Almaden Quicksilver & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Annual Mining Ephemera Lot of 4. 1) 1877 stock Financials Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & transfer form for the Quicksilver Mining Concentrating Manager’s Report, Balance Company. 2) Two different checks: The New Sheet & Profit & Loss Account for the year Almaden Store, 1917, and The New Almaden ending December 31, 1915 with detailed Company, Inc., 1916. Both drawn on the San Jose Safe Deposit Bank. statement of operating costs. 7” x 10” booklet 3) 6 x 9” illustration, “Entrance to New Alamaden Quicksilver Mine.” with 36 pages and 3 colorful foldout maps: 1) Historical property, 19th century. Probably from a book. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 17” x 17” 2) Vertical Longitudinal Section, 14” x 33” 3) Underground HWAC# 113713 Workings 16” x 37”. Includes 3 postcards of property complex. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 119583 Lot# 3506 San Francisco, California 1856 Title to Egbert Judson for the San Francisco Chemical Lot# 3511 Butte, Montana Orphan Girl Works (Explosives) Mortgage between Robert P. Mine Memorabilia The Orphan Girl Mine Chase and Egbert Judson for $2,500 for the property was located in 1875 on the west side of Butte, known as the San Francisco Chemical Works to Judson Montana, and produced silver and lead ore on August 1st, 1856. Signed on the back by Judson from underground workings as deep as 3,000 and Chase. 13 x 8” Folds, soiling, separation. Judson feet until the 1950s. In 1965, the site became was an inventor and manufacturer of explosives and the home of the World Museum of Mining involved in early explosives formation and testing in which today hosts visitors from all over the San Francisco in the 1860s. He is said to have founded planet. This lot includes a very nice watercolor the first assay works in San Francisco in 1852. In August 1867, three painting of the Orphan Girl headframe by Diane Nugent (framed size pounds of dynamite were made at this plant and used in a trial blast is 16 x 13.5 inches), a book on the history of the Orphan Girl, and an of boulders. This was the first instance of the manufacture and use of 8-inch steel ring labeled, MONTANA POWER METER HOUSE ORPHAN dynamite in the United States after the invention of that explosive by GIRL MINE that may have been a key ring. Est. $120-250 HWAC# Alfred Nobel in 1866. The trial was successful and led to the formation 124611 of the Giant Powder Company in the same month. Judson, a director of the Giant company, continued to operate the San Francisco Chemical Lot# 3512 Austin, Nevada 1866-1885 Works which supplied acid to the Giant company, and shortly afterwards Manhattan Silver Mining Co. Billhead formed the Judson Powder Company at Kenvil, N. J. On June 3, 1873. Archive Lot of about 30. Issued 1866-1874. he patented his “Giant Powder, No. 2” (patent no. 139,468), which was Most list Allen E. Curtis as the General Agent manufactured successfully by both companies. This powder consisted for the company. Half are billheads for the of forty parts nitroglycerine, forty parts sodium nitrate, six parts company billed to various Austin merchants. The other half are assay sulphur, six parts rosin, and eight parts kieselguhr, and was essentially billheads for ore processed by the company. Also included is an 1885 the first high explosive blasting powder to supplant Gunpowder. “Giant draft. This collection is a great look at both the value of the ore being powder” was for a long time a synonym for dynamite in the United processed in Austin and the various expenses of this important Austin States. Judson was the first to meet the need for an explosive which, mining operation. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-600 HWAC# 113698 though powerful, would be more “gentle” in action than a blasting Lot# 3513 Bullfrog, Nevada c 1907 Original powder, producing a heaving rather than a shattering effect. Later in Bullfrog Mines Stock Certificate and Stories 1882 he founded the Judson Manufacturing Co. building bridges and This is a nice collection of items centered structural steel with machine shops, foundry and pattern shops and around the Original Bullfrog Mines near Beatty, bolt and nut shops. The company had operations in Emeryville and Oakland California. (P195) Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113171 Nevada. It includes an original Original Bullfrog Mines Syndicate stock certificate issued on Lot# 3507 Yukon, Canada Map of the Yukon May 1, 1907 for 300 shares to Mrs. S.O. Wells. District in the North West Territory 1898 This is Signed by P.F. Carney, president, and E.P. Foster, asst secretary. The sheet 3 map of the Yukon District in the North West company was incorporated in the Territory of Arizona (not a state until Territory 1898, scale is 506, drawn by J. McEvoy. 1912). The lot also includes an article from the August, 1905 issue of Highlighting White Horse township. Geologic features Sunset Magazine titled The Bullfrog Bonanza with ten pages of stories, are numbered and highlighted in red with a brief black and white photos, and a drawing of a poker game by Maynard explanation of the rock formation. Interestingly, no Dixon. To round out the lot is a four-page pamphlet titled The First compass rose presented. Printed in Montreal 1898. Year’s rRecord of Bullfrog Nevada and its Marvelous Mines printed by Minor corner crease tears, otherwise good condition. the Forward Mining Development Company of Denver, Colorado. Est. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 121154 $300-500 HWAC# 88423 Lot# 3508 Salida, Colorado Mineral Day Lot# 3514 Gold Hill, Nevada 1880 Rare 1880 Ledger Pinback Miner with burro. “Mineral Day From Comstock An extremely rare ledger from Gold Salida, Colo. 31 mm. Est. $50-80 HWAC# 124231 Hill, Nevada, quite possibly The Bank of Gold Hill. This fragile book is almost completely filled with all things gold and silver. It shows silver on hand in the Gold Hill exchange, listings of checks issued, and various business transactions. As stated before, this book is very fragile and should be handled with extreme care and again, it’s a VERY RARE piece of Comstock history. Please see photos for more detail and condition. The Historic V & T Lot# 3509 Ten Mile, Colorado 1942 Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $300- Edition U.S.G.S. Ten Mile Mining District Topographical Maps (2) North Half, 33” x 40” 500 HWAC# 124512 - South Half 31” x 40” Est. $70-140 HWAC# 120333 174 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Mining / Ephemera Lot# 3515 Gold Hill, Nevada 1891 Three Gold Hill Assay Office Receipts Lot of 3 assay memorandums for the Gold Hill Assay Office, owned by assayer WS James. Three different assay customers: Mexican Mill, Justice Company, and W.S. James. All issued in 1891. All signed by WS James as assayer. Two of the receipts show typical assay results for the Comstock with over 90% silver. However, one receipt is for a bar that is 50.7% gold and 47.3% silver, very unusual. All receipts are 6 x 7.5” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 113700 Lot# 3516 Gold Hill, Nevada 1889-1891 Two Different Gold Hill Assay Office Receipts Lot of two different for W.S. James, Gold Hill Assay Office. 1) 1889 large format Memorandum of Bullion deposited by the Washoe Mill for the Justice Co. Two bars, each 92.9% fineness silver. Signed by WS James. 5 x 11” 2) Smaller memorandum for a deposit by WS James to himself, 1891. One bar, 83.6% fineness silver. Note says “Send me Mint memorandum as soon as you can. I want money soon.” 6 x 7.5” Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-200 HWAC# 113699 Lot# 3519 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Map of Goldfield, Nevada - Lot# 3517 Goldfield, Nevada 1904-1918 Pristine Map of Goldfield, Nevada, 1907, by The Clason Map Co., Goldfield, Nevada Mining Checks & publishers of Advertising & Reference Maps, Denver, Colorado. Ephemera Lot of 24 Pieces Lot of 24. Most is Includes an extensive alphabetical list of mining companies along for the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company. the left and right margins along with the claim boundaries of the Includes: 1904 Nye & Ormsby County Bank mining claims in and around the town of Goldfield. All the colors are promissory note; a letter from John Muir & still bright and vibrant. This map is from one of the best collection of Co., 1918, to Reorganized Kewanus Mining Co.; a 1910 letter from mining ephemera anywhere, and it has been professionally mounted the Tonopah Mining Co. of Nevada to the auditor of the Tonopah in a pecan(?) frame and plexiglas, 27-1/2 x 21-1/2 inches. There is & Goldfield Railroad; a 1917 letter from the Wall Street Copper a minor half-inch tear along the top edge of the map, four old tape Company (Goldfield & Luning); 13 checks from the Goldfield Cons. marks along the left and right edges, and a quarter-inch circular stain MC, 1908-1916; and 7 vouchers attached to Goldfield Cons. Milling along the bottom edge that probably came from the metal clasp of the & Transportation Co. checks, 1916. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 envelope that once held this map when it was published. Other than HWAC# 113691 that, you may never find another copy of this map available in better condition in your lifetime. It will be a prized display piece on whatever Lot# 3518 Goldfield, Nevada 1948 Key wall you hang it. Est. $1500-3000 HWAC# 125062 Goldfield Mining District Geology & Ore Deposit Reference (Plus 2 Extras) Lot of 3. 1) Univ. of Nevada Bulletin No. 5, 1948, Geology Lot# 3520 Goldfield, Nevada 1905 Old Gold and Mining Series No. 48, “A Contribution to the Mountain Mining Company Prospectus This is Published Information On the Geology and Ore an advertisement from the Mims-Sutro Company Deposits of Goldfield, Nevada” by key Goldfield that passes as a prospectus. Four pages. 8.5 x 6”. No geologist Fred Searls, Jr. 24 pp. with color photos or charts. Extremely fine condition. “High geologic map of the Goldfield district (20 x 24”). Grade Ore in Site,” the paper says. Owns 120 acres Key Goldfield reference!!! Some toning. 2) Two int eh heart of the Goldfield district. Their six mines extra Nevada Mining references: a) Nevada Bureau of Mine Bulletin are Wide West, Key Stone, Central, Smasher, Jucky 57, “Geology of the White Pine Mining District, White Pine County, Jim and Banner. W. J. Douglass is the president. Nevada” by Fred L. Humphrey, 1960, and b) Univ. of Nevada Bulletin Douglass is currently president of the Tonopah No. 4, Nevada’s Metal and Mineral Production (1859-1940) by Couch and Carpenter, 1943. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 113337 Mining and Milling Company. Vice president is J. S. McQuillan one of the original owners of the Montana-Tonopah Mining Company. This is “Your Opportunity!” Lots more information! Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123171 Lot# 3521 Goodsprings, Nevada 1931 Goodsprings Quadrangle Geology & Ore Deposits U.S.G.S. Publication Important Nevada Mining Reference on the Goodsprings Quadrangle by D.F. Hewett. U.S. Geological Society Professional Papers. PP 162. 9” x 11” booklet with 172 pages, 40 plates, 6 in pocket and 55 figures. This is one of the harder to find U.S.G.S. publications. Tape reinforcement on binding. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 119574 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 175

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Mining / Ephemera Lot# 3525 Tonopah, Nevada 1912 Tonopah Mining District Map - Pristine This is a virtually pristine, original copy of a map of the Lot# 3522 Manhattan, Nevada 1917 Manhattan Mining District Map Tonopah Mining District, compiled and published by William K. - Pristine Manhattan Mining District, Nye County, Nevada. Compiles Moran, U.S. Mineral Surveyor, in 1912. Photo Litho by Britton & Rey, and Published by William K. Moran, E.M., Photo. Lith. Halpin Litho Co, San Francisco. Scale is approx. 1000 feet per inch. It comes from the S.F. This map is in such pristine condition as if it was mounted and personal collection of one of the premier mining collectors in the world, and it has been professionally mounted and framed in oak framed on the day is was printed. There are no tears or water damage on this item, and the colors are bright and vibrant. It comes from a and plexiglas, ready to hang in your home, office, or museum. Overall collector of the finest mining ephemera, and it has been professionally dimension are 40-7/8 x 32-1/4 inches. The map is completely intact mounted and framed in oak and plexiglas. Dimensions are 38-1/4 x with no tears along the folds and only incidental water damage is 32-3/4 inches. This will look spectacular on the wall of your home or evident along the outer edges and a 3/8-inch scuff on the far left in office, or as a featured item in your museum. Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# Section 29. It is doubtful that a better preserved specimen will ever 125061 be available on the market any time soon. Est. $2000-4000 HWAC# 125060 Lot# 3523 Midas, Nevada Elko Prince Mine Assay Maps (3) STUNNING DETAIL! Assay Lot# 3526 Tonopah, Nevada 1904 Two Court Documents Related to Mining Lawsuits points throughout map taken from 1913 to 1) Tonopah & Salt Lake Mining Company vs. 1934 on various maps. Shows 300’, 450’, 600’, 750’ levels. Also shafts, Tonopah Mining Company. This document shaft stations, Ehler Tunnel. Much more!!! According to Couch & makes Hugh Brown the new lawyer for the Carpenter, the Elko Prince was the first major producer at Midas with a production of $338,000 in 1915 and 1916. 1” = 10”. Largest measures Tonopah and Salt Lake. Signed by vice president 48 x 36” (others only inches smaller). Some edge wear and only one 1” M. O’Meara. Brown will also, therefore, be rip. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 120332 representing the Pyramid mining location vs. the Valley View mining location. 2) John T. Jones vs. White Wolf [A. Lot# 3524 Star City, Nevada 1864 Phoenix], et al. The lawsuit is for $25,000 for unlawful, forceful and Sheba Mining Check This is a wrongful entry and wrongful withholding thereof. Signed by attorney check written on The Sheba Gold Alfred Chartz. A counter claim is made, and backed up by the deputy & Silver Mine in Humboldt County, surveyor general, that Phoenix claimed these premises in 1903 and Nevada Territory. The large check by all rights had legal claim to them. [Alfred Chartz would soon be measures 4”x 8”and is very good convicted of murder!] Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# condition. Check is made out to 123149 a W.B. Hough and is signed by mine superintendent Thomas McDonald. There are two blue revenue Lot# 3527 Tonopah, Nevada 1965 USGS stamps and a red. See photos for more details. Est. $200-400 HWAC# Professional Paper 42 Hardcover 295pp with 122854 index. The first great report on Tonopah, NV. Upper spine wear, toning on front and back covers. Est. $50-75 HWAC# 76547 Lot# 3528 Virginia City, Nevada 1889-1891 Chollar-Potosi Assay Office Memorandums for the Savage Mine Lot of 5. All for ore submitted by the Savage Mine, 1889-1891. Approx. 5 x 8” All signed by Meyers. Folds, some toning. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113706 176 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Mining / Ephemera Lot# 3529 Virginia City, Nevada 1867-1891 Lot# 3534 Virginia City, Nevada 1877 Stock Ledger, Comstock Assay Group Lot of 4 different. 1) V1, #68 Nov. 13, 1877 single sheet issue of the rare Two different assay memorandums for the Stock Ledger newspaper published by Henry S. Gold Hill Assay Office, WS James. 1889 to the Moore. The stock Ledger reported all the Comstock Washoe Mill and 1891 Nevada Mill tailings. and other Nevada mining company stocks as occur Both signed by WS James as assayer. 2) 1867 on the San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. The Ore Assay Report for the Savage Mine. Lists results from the following highest priced stocks were the Con Virginia ($25.25), mills: Savage, Atchinson, Empire State, Island, and Mariposa. 3) 1889 Ophir ($32). Also reported were Candelaria mines, Chollar-Potosi Assay Office sheet for ore deposited by the Savage Rye Patch, Bodie, and Tuscarora. Of interest to Stock Mining Company. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 113726 cert collectors is that Wells Fargo MC is quoted here at 65-70 cents. Not bad for a worthless prospect with a truly Lot# 3530 Virginia City, Nevada 1870 Extra great stock certificate. Tattered top and lower sides. Ex rare. 13.5 x Rare Hale & Norcross Mining Revenue 19”. ads include Perkins (drugs), Noe & Lee (photographers), Nevada Check Signed by James Fair Very scarce. Hale Bank of SF, Virginia Savings Bank, Frankel & Block stock brokers, MM & Norcross Silver Mining Company check No. Frederick, Sazerac Saloon. Noticeably missing is the Bank of California 1652, issued in 1870 to LB Williams and signed and any assay firm. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125236 by James G. Fair as superintendent. RN-B16a imprinted revenue. Paperclip stain at upper left, wear to right side. James Fair was on the Lot# 3535 Virginia City, Nevada 1878 Sutro “Bonanza Kings,” a group of 4 that made a fortune on the Comstock Tunnel Assay Office Memorandum Very Lode. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113640 rare. We have not offered one of these in the last decade. Memorandum of Ore Assays at the Lot# 3531 Virginia City, Nevada 1876 Rare Sutro Tunnel Company’s Assay Office, March Nevada Revenue Check: Genoa Fluming 18th, 1878. List 6 assays, from porphry and Company Rare. Wells Fargo & Co, RN-D clay from the tunnel. Signed by assayer LE imprinted revenue. “Genoa Fluming Co.” Gignous(?). 7 x 8” This was issued the year the printed in red at left. Dateline Carson, Nev., tunnel was completed. The company had set 1876. Issued to Geo. Elder for $180. This company logged near Genoa up ore royalty arrangements with many of the and floated the lumber down the Carson River to Empire, where it was Comstock mines. Ken Prag Collection Est. $120-200 HWAC# 113702 processed and then sent up for use in the mines at Virginia City. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 113647 Lot# 3536 Virginia City, Nevada 1866-1885 Three Different Virginia City Mining Checks Lot# 3532 Virginia City, Nevada Lot of 3. 1) Gould & Curry Silver Mining Co., 1867 Savage Mining Company Bank of California, 1866. Issued to Kennedy & Assay Archive Lot of 30 Ore Mallon (grocers). Signed by Louis Janin as supt. Assay Reports for the Savage Mine Two adhesive revenue stamps incl. orange Nevada. 2) Gould & Curry, in Virginia City for April 1867. Bank of California, 1870. Issued to Mike Welch. Signed by CC Batterman Each sheet is approx. 9.5 x 7.5” It as supt. Scarce RN-B16a imprinted revenue. 3) Consolidated California lists the Assay No., Sample Mark, and Virginia Mining Company, NV Bank of San Francisco, 1885. Issued and Value per Ton in Dollars and to WH Patton by Patton as superintendent. This mine was the site of Cents. The results are reported for the Big Bonanza discovery in 1873. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 113648 gold and silver content. Mills listed include: Eureka, Booth, Merimac, Lot# 3537 Virginia City, Nevada 1878 & 1880 Empire State, De Lands, Central, Manhattan, Santiago, Savage, Rigbys, Two DL Bliss Signed Comstock Checks incl. Woodworth, Mariposa, Devils Gate, Atchinson, Pioneer, Granite, Palace Hotel Lot of 2. 1) 1880 check made out Bowers, and Lemelec. This is an impressive cross section of the entire by Bliss to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco Comstock milling operations at the time. Some of the sheets are signed for $100. This hotel was the site of the famous by CJ Robinson as assayer. This collection provides a window into the William Sharon Dinner in 1876 where silver operation of one of the most famous of the Comstock Lode mines, at a ingots were handed out as invitations. DL Bliss period before the Bonanza Discovery in 1873. Please insepct. Ken Prag was one of the invited guests! Signed by Bliss for the C&TL&F Co. Collection Est. $400-800 HWAC# 113701 (Carson and Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company). 2) Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. revenue check, 1878, made out to CC Atherton. Lot# 3533 Virginia City, Nevada 1867-1916 RN-G imprinted revenue. Signed by Bliss. This company was the Tahoe-area lumbering operation where Bliss made his fortune. It was Savage Mining Company Ephemera Lot of a key supplier for the Comstock mines. Est. $60-120 HWAC# 113646 10. 1) 1897 Carson City Mint Memorandum of Silver Bullion deposit. 3,738 ounces of Lot# 3538 Virginia City, Nevada 1876 amalgam. 2) 1916 illustrated report to the Virginia & Truckee Railroad Revenue Check Stockholders of the Savage Gold & Silver to Huntington & Hopkins w/ Yerington Mining Co. / Hale & Norcross Silver Mining Co. Autograph Rare Virginia & Truckee company / Chollar Mining Co. / and Potosi Mining Co. check issued in Virginia City, Nevada in 1876 22pp. with printed photos, mine reports and to Huntington, Hopkins & Co. for $3,013. RN-D. Signed by Yerington history, and fold-out cross-sections. 3) 1867 Ore Assay Report sheet. as vice-president and Thorton as secretary. Reverse signed by Purdy 4) 1890 Chollar-Potosi Assay Office sheet. 5) 1893 Ore Statement. for Huntington & Hopkins. In 1855, Collis P. Huntington and Mark 6) 1898 check, unused 1880s check, and sheet of two unused 1880s Hopkins formed a partnership and opened a hardware store in checks. 7) Two unused 1870s company billheads. Ken Prag Collection Sacramento. Hopkins and Huntington made up two of the a group Est. $150-200 HWAC# 113724 known as “Big Four,” the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 113641 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 177

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Mining / Ephemera Lot# 3539 Virginia Lot# 3544 Utah c 1900 City, Nevada 1860s Tintic & No. Tintic Mining Virginia City and Gold Districts U.S.G.S. Folio and Hill Photos From the Property Map (2 Items) 1) Late 1800s - Lot of United States Geological Atlas 5 Five very old and Folio No. 65, “Tintic Special” original photographs 1900 18” X 22” folder - 18 from the glory days of pages, including 4 maps. 2) the Comstock showing Property Map for Tintic & several of the famous North Mining Districts showing color coded claims for the Tintic mines and mills of the day. Each is numbered on the back along Standard, Chief Cons. & International Smelting Holdings and an Annual with script initials MGE. The numbers on the back do not match Production Graph for 1869-1927. 18” x 32” Silver ore was discovered the numbers printed on the photograph. Using the numbers on the in the East Tintic Mountains by George Rush in 1869. New deposits back, we have #2) Consolidated Virginia and Ophir Mills; #9) Ward of ore were soon located that were heavy with silver, gold, lead, zinc, Shaft; #12) Foreman Shaft, Gold Hill; #13) Chollar-Potosi; #14) Union copper, and other minerals, usually in the form of metal sulfides. The Consolidated and Sierra Nevada. Note that the head frames over many Tintic Mining District soon became an important producer of silver, Comstock mine shafts were housed inside buildings until the Yellow gold and base metals with high yields during the late 19th and early Jacket Mine fire on April 7, 1869. After that disaster, head frames were 20th centuries. By 1899, the Tintic District was the leading mining required to be exposed, presumably to improve ventilation and rescue district in the State of Utah and by 1915 Tintic mines had produced efforts in the future. Photos 9 and 12 must pre-date that fire. All made over $150 million dollars of metal. Divided between Utah and Juab of heavy paperboard, 8 x 10 inches outside, with the photo mounted counties, the large Tintic District is the location of several famous in approx. 5 x 7-inch openings. See photos for content and condition mines including the “Big Four” of Eureka; the Gemini, Bullion-Beck, details. Est. $800-1300 HWAC# 125203 Eureka Hill, and Centennial Eureka, as well as the Mammoth, the Dragon, the Grand Central, the Colorado, the Iron Blossom and others. Lot# 3540 Wonder, Nevada 1911 Bill for the Today, Utah is the third largest metal producing state in the U.S., behind Arizona and Nevada, in terms of total historical production. Nevada Wonder Mining Company Printed Est. $150-250 HWAC# 118298 ‘Nevada Wonder Mining Company.’ Office copy. Purchased of John Breuner of Oakland, one bed, dresser, chiffonier, rocker, kitchen chair Lot# 3545 Antique Mining and table, felt top table, carpet, Linoleum, and Advertising - 5 Framed Pages maple chair. Has to be for the superintendent’s A set of five framed and glazed office or the like. Wonder was established in advertising pages, two pages May 1906 when prospectors from the town of Fairview discovered are self-identified as from the rich quartz veins in a dry wash north of Chalk Mountain. As was typical Los Angeles Mining Review, all of the era of the ‘second’ silver rush in Nevada, hundreds of people featuring goods and services soon flocked to the site, and the town of Wonder was born. About 39 offered to the mining industry miles east of Fallon. [wikipedia] Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60-100 of the day. One frame contains HWAC# 123143 clippings pieced together into one complete page, while the rest Lot# 3541 Nevada 1867-1889 Nevada Assay are original full pages. Paper is Ephemera Lot of 5. 1) Sheet from the Assay ordinary newsprint with varying Office of the Eberhardt and Aurora Mining degrees of yellowing from one to Company, 1878. Eberhardt City, Nevada. 13 x the other. Glass of one frame is broken out of the top right corner, but 8 .5” Ghost town. 2) Ore Assay Report sheet it should be easy and inexpensive to replace. All are in 12 x 15-inch for the Savage Mine (Virginia City), 1867. 9.5 medium-toned oak frames, four alike and one slightly different. See x 7.5” 3) Chollar-Potosi Assay Office sheet, photos for details. Est. $80-100 HWAC# 125187 1886, for deposit by Harry Berry. 4.75 x 8” 4) Large ledger sheet for ore deposited by the Manhattan Silver Mining Lot# 3546 General Mining Steroe-views Company (Austin) to assayer John R. Murphy, April 1867. 14 x 17” 5) Selby Smelting & Lead Co. assay receipt for deposit by the Bullion & Lot of four. 1) Mile underground - loading Exchange Bank, 1889. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113687 and handling with copper rock, Calumet-Hecla mines. 2) Placer Claim Blacktail, 3) Anthracite Lot# 3542 Sumpter Area, coal mine at Scranton. 4) Large tunnel Oregon Crisp Stereo-view handwritten “Grass Valley - Nevada City.” Ken of Hydraulic Mining in Prag Collection Est. $50-75 HWAC# 123238 Oregon Lot of two - both same. Very nice condition. Lot# 3547 Milling Equipment Booklets Published by Keystone View from Marcy Mills and Hardinge These are Company. # 13796. Reverse has large description of hydraulic mining Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 123234 two booklets describing the design, function, and operation of two different types of milling equipment for ore separation. No dates of Lot# 3543 Mercur, Utah U.S.G.S. 16th Annual publishing are given but 1930 dates appear Report 1894-1895 Hardback Book, Geology in reference to techniques. A fascinating read of the Mercer Mining District Utah, J.E. Spurr, for techniques, design, and room lay-out Intro. begins on p.349, pp.455. Black & white for installation and mining operations. Marcy Ball Mill Division of photos in illustrations. Est. $60-90 HWAC# The Mine and Smelter Supply Company, and Hardinge Conical Mill 76900 Company of New York. Paperbacks roughly 7 in. X 10 in. Condition is very good on both. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 108697 178 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Tools Lot# 3548 Miscellaneous Mining Maps (4) 1. Lot# 3554 Eccles Protector Lamp and Lighting Type 6 Austin Area, Reese River Mining District, Lando (Pair) Before the advent of electric lighting, underground Co., Nevada Topographical Map 1937, shows miners would carry candles and lanterns into the workings Austin and the many mines in the area. 35” x 35”. 2. Jarbridge, Nevada to illuminate their work area. In some mines, particularly in Mining Claims Map, Issued by the Twin Falls Development co. 1911 the coal industry, there was a great risk of igniting airborne 14.5” x 21” black on brown paper. 3. Wheeler Tunnel Plat, National, dust and combustable gases, creating a terrible disaster. Nevada 1911 24” x 18.5” Blueprint also shows 10 adjacent Mining In 1815, Sir Humphrey Davy invented a safety lamp which Claims on the property 4. Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mine Map 1921 enclosed the flame in a mesh screen that prevented ignition Shows vertical Longitudinal Section of the Underground workings 12” of explosive gases outside the lamp. This is a pair of Eccles x 30” on onionskin. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 120334 brand Protector Lamp and Lighting type 6 miners lamps made of brass and glass using Davy’s principle. Both are in good Lot# 3549 Nevada Books (Mostly condition, and though all parts appear to be present, we have not Biographies, 3 books) 3 scarce Nevada pieces, tested either one to see if they will light. They could stand up to some mostly biographies, 2 softback & 1 hardback polishing if desired, or leave them in their gently used condition as is. book. 1) Sagebrush Statesman: Tasker L. Oddie Approx 10 inches from the base to the top of the ring, and 3-1/2 inches of Nevada by Loren B Chan, Nevada Studies in diameter at the base. See photos for condition and construction in History & Political Science, No. 12, c. 1973, details. Est. $120-200 HWAC# 125098 pp. 171; 2) When the Gold was Gone/ Memories of Goldfield, Nevada, 1920-1930; by Wanda Stovall Cox (signed by author) c.1992 pp.204; Lot# 3555 Gamma Ray Logging Probe 3) Hardback book, Nevadans and Nevada, by Boyd Moore, c. 1950, pp. Probably down hole gamma ray logging probe 214, beautiful black & white photos & illustrations. Est. $40-60 HWAC# lead. No instrument. No instructions, no extras. 76279 With original hard shell case. Probably 1970s. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124490 Lot# 3550 late 1800s Sinking a Shaft - Harper’s Weekly Framed Print In the latter Lot# 3556 Uranium Scintillometer half of the 19th and the early 20 centuries, Geometrics 1977 Model GR-310 Portable the American magazine Harper’s Weekly Gamma Ray Spectrometer with Manual published foreign and domestic news as well and transportation case. Case is in nice as fiction, humor, and documentary essays on condition. Should be in working order. These a wide range of subjects. These were often spectrometers are exactly what were used in accompanied by beautiful illustrations that the late 1970s during the 2nd major Uranium brought the writing to life for the magazine’s exploration “Boom” until the Three-Mile Island readers. This is a pair of illustrations, possibly a woodcut, depicting Tragedy. These are run by classic D-cell batteries. This equipment is the work of excavating and maintaining a mine shaft. This copy is in still in use today. Est. $220-440 HWAC# 119719 virtually pristine condition with no visible damage to the paper or Lot# Uranium Scintillometer image. Professionally matted and framed in black anodized aluminum 3557 Geometrics 1977 Model GR-310 Portable and glass, it is 17-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches with a matte opening of 12-9/16 x 9-5/16 inches. See photo for details. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 125070 Gamma Ray Spectrometer with Manual and transportation case. Foam on inside cover of Lot# 3551 The Hydraulic Gold Miner’s case is deteriorating. Should be in working Manual by T.S.G.Kirkpatrick This is a user’s order. These spectrometers are exactly what manual on designing and using the hydraulic were used in the late 1970s during the 2nd method of gold mining published in 1890 major Uranium exploration “Boom” until the Three-Mile Island by T.S.G. Kirkpatrick and approved by the Tragedy. These are run by classic D-cell batteries. Est. $200-400 California State Mining Bureau of San Francisco. A rare find of a book HWAC# 119718 measuring 5 in. X 7 in. The illustrations and drawings for construction Lot# 3558 Antique Brass Survey Compass are very specific and detailed; well executed. Mr. Kirkpatrick was the Antique brass survey compass in very good Chairman of the Orita Mines, Director of the Golden Gate Alluvial condition, a bit tarnished, but it could polish Syndicate, and Director of the Gravel Gold Mines of Colombia. The up nicely. Compass face is engraved steel with book is in good condition with an open binding on the inside leaf. This book may well be used in the education of environmental abuses. Est. MADE IN FRANCE on the inner dial. Outer dial $100-300 HWAC# 108698 is graduated in individual degrees. There are two, perpendicular working levels integrated Lot# 3552 Nevada Hand Constructed Ore into the base which are visible through the Bucket with Nevada License Plate Repair compass rose. Two brass arms fold upward Choice ore bucket, 18 x 18’ with iron hoop. to create a sighting reticle, and these arms Made of sheet metal, hand riveted in a very have hooks so the whole assembly can be hung from a level line. the clever manner. Apparently heavily used in a extension under the compass is puzzling and appears to allow the small mine, with a later repair using a 1930 compass to attach to some other device, possibly a tripod, and be Nevada license plate!! This ore bucket has loads leveled independently with a ball joint. At the end of this extension is of character. Est. $500-800 HWAC# 125045 a yellow cat’s-eye glass marble. Maybe you can explain that to us. The compass body is 4 inches in diameter, and the whole thing is 7 inches Lot# 3553 Antique Balance Scale and Book tall with the arms extended. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 108661 on Ore’s Lot of 2. 1. Thompson Antique Assay or Apothecary scale in wooden box, good condition w/small wooden weight box (no weights). Good condition . 2. Technical Methods of Ore Analysis for Science and Colleges by Albert H. Low,Sc.D. Former Prof. Colorado School of Mines. Good condition, no tears or writhing in book other than a name. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 122126 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 179

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Tools Lot# 3564 Candeleria Mill Furnace Part Tools Pattern, c. 1880 Wood pattern from the Lot# 3559 Strawberry Valley, California Pulley Virginia and Truckee Railroad foundry Blocks, Hook Chain, Splitting Wedge Three operation is Carson City. This foundry made wood pulley blocks, approx 19 inches long and parts for public and private railroads, mines 6 inches wide, an iron pulley approx 12-1/2 & mills throughout Nevada and Eastern inches long and 3-1/2 inches wide, a heavy California from the 1870’s through circa 1910. chain with large hooks on each end about 41 This is approx. 24” in diameter and 4” thick. inches long, and a splitting wedge about 9-12 by 2-1/2 inches. We’ll These patterns were sold off about 1970 when the building sold. It even through in a lucky horseshoe. Est. $100-250 HWAC# 108682 was later demolished and the stones to Napa for a winery. Est. $200- 400 HWAC# 125139 Lot# 3560 Detroit, Michigan 1930s Blow Torch by Clayton-Lambert Mfg Co. Brass blow-torch made Lot# 3565 1900’s Early Surveyors Compass by Clayton-Lambert Manufacturing Company in a C1900, French brass cased surveyors compass. Lift up sights w.string hooks, 360 degree scale, design patented Jan 4, 1921 (says so right there on the embossed front). This was a liquid-fueled blow needle lock, two levels still fully functional.4.75” dia. Est. $100-200 torch that was pressurized the the hand pump HWAC# 122124 on the top right side. These found applications Lot# 3566 Mortar and Pestle, Cast Iron for use in a variety of industries, and this type is Cast iron mortar and pestle, approx. Mortar occasionally seen as a prop in old black and white is 8-1/4 inches in diameter across the top and movies. We can recommend putting this one to 7-1/4 inches tall. Pestle is approx 12 inches long and 1-5/8 inches work, but it will make an interesting display item. Approx 6 inches in diameter at the widest. Sides of the mortar have a vertical fluted in diameter at the base, and about 11 inches tall to the top of the design overlain by a pattern of dripping liquid molded into the casting. hook. Red-painted wooden handle. Founded in Michigan in the 1880s, Clayton-Lambert now operates out of Buckner, Kentucky. Est. $150- No identifying marks found. Surface bears a brown-to-orange patina 300 HWAC# 108745 of rust. Total weight is 22 pounds. See photo for design and condition details. Est. $200-500 HWAC# 124650 Lot# 3561 Verdi, Nevada Verdi Lumber Co. Wooden Pattern Block This is a wooden pattern block for a split pulley that would have Firearms been used at the Virginia and Truckee Rail Road foundry to cast a new iron pulley wheel. A sawtooth picture hanger has been attached to the back side for mounting on a wall. This wooden disk is 12 inches in diameter and 2 inches thick. The Verdi Lumber Company began Lot# 3567 1813 in the late 1800s as the underground mines of the Comstock were Charleville Flintlock in high demand for timber to use as square-set timbering, building Pistol This is a model construction, and fuel for trains and stationary engines. Just as the 13 Charleville flintlock mines were beginning to wind down, the Central Pacific Railroad pistol. This french was pushing westward over the Sierra Nevada mountains, with high cavalry pistol was demands for ties and lumber for bridges. The Verdi Lumber Company manufactured in 1813 developed its own railway system west of Verdi to haul cut logs down and so marked on the from the eastern slopes of the Sierra to their sawmill in Verdi. The barrel. It is smooth death knell of the company was a 1926 fire that destroyed the sawmill bore at about .70 cal. and other buildings, causing the company to dissolve in 1927. Read The original ramrod more about the interesting history and influence of this company in and hammer top jaw a 2007 article online by Robert Whalley. See photos for details. Est. are missing, as is part of $200-400 HWAC# 125204 the hammer jaw screw. All mounting hardware Lot# 3562 Antique Carpenters Wood Planes is original to the gun (2) 1.) is 23” long 7” high 3” wide, intricately and wears a great constructed, high quality. Joh Peter Arns, ARNS number of assembly and inspector’s marks throughout. The European USS Stahl 2.) 8” long 3” wide 6” tall. No name on this one. Est. $200- walnut stock reads like a road map to final assembly. This gun was so 400 HWAC# 125219 successful in France that it was copied at the Harper’s Ferry arsenal in Lot# 3563 BK Precision Dyna-Jet 747 the United States in time for the war of 1812 and the same basic design used in the percussion version of the model 1842 Harper’s Ferry pistol. Vacuum Tube Tester Portable vacuum tube The lock-plate reads: “Manuf. Imp. de Charleville” with three assembly tester made by BK Precision, Dyna-Jet Model marks on the lock face. The solid brass nose-cap is stamped “T” on 747. jProduct of Dynascan Corporation, the right side as is the trigger guard bow and trigger plate. The left Chicago, Illinois. Serial number 15-07413 side of the stock has a beautiful final inspection stamp on the reverse appears on the right side of the meter. We have lock-plate mortice as well as a host of other inspector’s marks : NA, D, no way to test the tester, so we cannot be sure T, and EF. The barrel is stamped B in an incluse as well as the date 1813 it is in working condition, however the red at the breach. The top of the barrel is marked: “Me. an 13” presumably light comes on when the tester is turned on. for model 13. The the butt-cap is original and well mounted. The gun Instruction manual and reference manual (which is attached to the wears an even patination of gray and iron oxide. The trigger and lock lid!) are both included. Comes with the banana-plug extension wire for function correctly and all markings are legible. This would make an tubes with a connector on top of the tube. Case dimensions are approx excellent companion to any early American military arms collection 21 x 12 x 5 inches. See photo for interior details. Complete weight is to depict the evolution of arms on this continent. No sales to New 12.8 pounds. Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 108681 York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# 122907 180 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Firearms-Weapons Lot# 3568 French Lot# 3570 1820s French Coach Pistol Percussion Pocket Large-bore French Percussion Coach Pistol. Pistols, Matched This is a finely detailed French coach pistol Pair This is a c.1820’s. The dimensions are about .70 cal., pair of unmarked 12 in. round barrel, 18 in. overall length. The percussion pocket gun is in percussion ignition and the lock pistols attributed is engraved “ J. Baucheron, Paris”. The lock-plate is highly engraved to Louis-Francois while the hammer is engraved in a feather motif and every screw has Devisme of Paris, been chased and original to the gun. The barrel has three identifying France. These marks by the gun-smith, barrel-smith at the breach and presumably little pistols are not of a proofing house. The ramrod appears to be original to the gun percussion ignition and made of ebony that has also been chased, spiral cut and banded; at 6. 5 in./ 17 cm. a beautiful detail of the gun. The stock is of European walnut that has overall length with 2 3/8 in. / 6 cm. length barrels. About 10-11 mm been entirely covered in a silver wire vine design. Much of the silver bore with 12 groove left hand rifling. Bores are clear. This is a matched is now lost to time, but the memaining silver is spectacular especially set as one is serialized at “3” and the other “*3”. No bluing remains. at the barrel tang, where a cornucopia design is inlaid and extends To load these guns one must unscrew the barrel from the frame and to the entire gun. The rest of the gun has brass furniture that has pour about 20-25 grains of black powder into the chamber and drop been detail chased in high relief in a drum and mortar cannon motif. an appropriate sized round ball onto the seat and screw the barrel The ramrod ferrules are all original, as is the sideplate, pommel, and back onto the frame. The hammers are center-frame box-lock design trigger-guard. At the lower tang of the trigger-guard is a metal-smith with folding triggers and no trigger guard. This was a popular design maker’s mark of the man completing the detailed enhancements to in the 1840’s-1850’s when these self-protection guns were carried in the gun. There are three marks, with one as “CC “ inside a Diamond coat pockets or boots. (This design was made popular by Sam Colt’s indicating his trade as a gold or silversmith, his initials and possibly Paterson design revolvers of the 1840’s here in the United States.) The a date mostly illegible. (The CC diamond maker’s mark is thought to frames are matching engraved, ebonized grips and in working order. be that of Charles Christofle from a family of jewelers since 1793. He A beautifully designed pair of guns without a box or accessories. No would later be recognized for his silver plating technique and jeweler attempt has been made to fire these guns. No sales to New York City, to Napoleon 111, nephew to Napoleon 1). The original owner of this New Jersey, California, or Hawaii. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 122910 gun may well have been high ranking military, a dignitary, or wealthy patron. No attempt has been made to fire this gun, nor should it be fired. A spectacular piece of history from the Napoleonic era. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, or Hawaii. Est. $2500-3500 HWAC# 122906 Lot# 3569 c1804 French Cavalry Flintlock Pistol Lot# 3571 1867 Swedish- model 9 This is a model 9 Made Remington Model French cavalry pistol built M-1867 Rifle This is a in St. Etienne. The barrel Remington contract gun made is 8 in. long at about .69 by Carl Gustafs for the Swedish and Norwegian armies S/N 61123. cal. and the gun is 14 in. The serial number is present on the breach and on the bottom of the overall length. This gun butt-stock. This gun appears to be unmolested from its original design is the predecessor to the and marked M-1867. It has three bands, 50 3/8 in./1280 mm overall Charleville design model length, bayonet lug, elevator sight out to 1400 mtrs. G.C. cartouche 13. The lock-plate is on the heel of the butt-stock (Carl Gustafs), crown inspection marks marked “ Manu. Imp. d on the receiver, barrel, forestock, butt-stock, buttplate, and hammer. St. Etienne” with a stamp These guns often saw modifications by civilians after being retired by “J” above. The barrel is the military but this one is intact. Bluing intact on the barrel with some marked “arrow over B” patination, receiver is gray, fully operational. Caliber is thought to be and stamped “1309, Mdl. 12.17X44mmR or 12mm Remington. The bore is bright. The receiver 9”. There are also inspector’s marks of a crown over the letter P on tang is marked in Swedish and a date of 1882. No attempt has been the side-plate, nose-cap, trigger-guard bow, and trigger plate. AP made to fire this gun. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, is clearly stamped on the reverse lock-plate mortice. The lock has a or Hawaii. Additional shipping charges may apply. Est. $1500-2500 noticeable brass mounted pan and the hammer is complete. The stock HWAC# 122912 shows wear near the sear lever on the lock and indicates that the lock has been removed on occasion for lubrication or service. The entire Lot# 3572 gun has an even patination and is complete. These guns were built Mississippi c1978 from 1801 until 1805 and replaced by the model 13 in 1806. This gun Model 1841 shows beautiful inspectors marks as well as assembly marks. Cavalry Mississippi Rifle men were issued two of these guns for combat in France. Another Reproduction by great piece of firearm evolution in the United States. These guns may Antonio Zoli/ Navy Arms This is a NIB Model 1841 “Mississippi rifle” have been imported to the United States in time for the war of 1812 made by Antonio Zoli and imported by Navy Arms S/N 26573. This and may have seen service in the Civil War as well. No sales to New is a reproduction black powder rifle of an 1841 pattern rifle made York City, New Jersey, California , and Hawaii. Est. $1000-1500 HWAC# at the Harpers Ferry Arsenal. It got the nickname “Mississippi” rifle 122909 after Jefferson Davis outfitted his Mississippi volunteers with them for the Mexican-American War. This one is .58 cal. with a 33.5 in. barrel and is 49 in. overall length. The gun is in its original box, shipping container, and cosmoline coated plastic bag, NIB ! It even includes the warranty papers written in Italian. This gun has not been fired and no attempt has been made to do so. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. This is a non-FFL reproduction gun; additional shipping charges may apply. C. 1978. Est. $1000-1600 HWAC# 122903 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 181

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Firearms-Weapons Lot# 3573 Texas Jim Perry’s knife from the Lot# 3577 Lakonia sword with Sheath This XIT Ranch in Texas This is the knife carried by is a lakonia sword with horn grips. The overall Jim Perry of the XIT Ranch in Texas. “J. Perry” length is 22 in. with a 16.5 in. blade. The blade scribed into the antler handle of a homemade is made with fullers on both sides and held knife based on a sword . “XIT” scribed into the together with unique style rivets. The sheath is butt. James Perry (1858-1918) is best known as a black cowboy, best covered in a thin leather over wood. Condition hand, and cook on the world’s largest ranch in the Texas Panhandle. is good, age unknown. Salvatore Falcone Collection Research will reveal a photo of Jim playing the fiddle, loop holster Est. $500-700 HWAC# 108707 on his right hip and what appears to be this knife on his left hip. The knife is about 14 in. overall and would have to be worn horizontally Lot# 3578 Large folder knife with Chinese while in the saddle. Overall condition is very good, brass guard, heavy Dragon This is a large folder knife at 11 in. antler grips, and sword blade at 8 in. length. Texas needs this knife overall with an 8 in. blade. Cleverly made with back. You don’t need a history book to figure out that this knife came a button release, horn scales and a folding from a vintage civil war sword re-purposed by a man born before guard as well. A Chinese dragon is engraved emancipation to carve up fresh beef or anything else that stands in on the blade. C. 1940’s condition is good with his way. More can be learned about Jim Perry in “Black Cowboys of sheath. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100- Texas” edited by Sarah Massey, chapter 17 by Ron Wilhelm. Salvatore 150 HWAC# 108706 Falcone Collection Est. $700-1000 HWAC# 108705 Lot# 3579 Muzzleloading Shotgun with a Springfield Lot# 3574 Flintlock Blunderbuss Pistol This is a blunderbuss pistol, caliber unknown, with lock This is a repurposed a 12 in. barrel and 21.5 in. overall length. This Springfield lock marked gun has a flintlock with an elaborate frizzen “Springfield 1839” on a smooth-bore 14 or 15 ga. shotgun barrel. This spring retainer. The barrel is acid etched gun appears to have been made of surplused parts and reused to build octagon to round and flared at the muzzle. The stock is of a light a shotgun. Being a muzzleloader has its advantages were gauge may colored hard wood elaborately detailed with brass wire inlay, 13 bone not have been very important where you dropped your powder, stuffed and coral inlays, brass furniture sideplate, trigger-guard, and ramrod a homemade wadding, a measured shot package, and another wad to ferrules. No proof marks shown, origin could be of Spain, Portugal, or keep it together; now lets get dinner. Overall dimensions are 56 in. India 1800s. Likely for display. Est. $400-1000 HWAC# 122904 length and a 40 1/2 in. barrel. In fair to poor condition. See photos for details. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. Lot# 3575 1859 Additional shipping charges may apply. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122914 Frank Wesson Model 1859 Single-Shot .30 Lot# 3580 Percussion Single-shot Pistol This is a repurposed percussion pistol. The barrel is Caliber Rifle This original as well as the buttcap but the lock has is a single-shot been repurposed to fit this gun. The gun is 12 two-trigger rifle made by Frank Wesson of “Worcester, Mass. Patented in. overall length and the barrel is 7 1/4 in. long Oct. 25, 1859” marked on the barrel at the breach, S/N 378. The three smooth bore at approximately .70 caliber. For digit serial number indicates an early production of 1859 or 1860; display purposes only. No attempt to fire this prior to the Civil War. The dimensions are 24 in. octagon barrel and gun has been made. No sales to New York City, 40 in. overall length. The bore is rough and measures at .30 cal. The New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 122908 only logical cartridge would be a very rare .30-30 Wesson rimfire cartridge. This is the first model F. Wesson with a right side slotted- link and without an extractor. This is a significant gun because it was Lot# 3581 Percussion Single-Shot Pistol the first copper metallic cartridge gun to be used for military service This is a percussion pistol made from parts. in the United States. Being a first model this gun does not wear any B. The lock plate is marked 1801 with a barely Kittridge & Co. markings indicating military service. The gun wears legible cartouche for the East India Company. heavy patination on an iron frame and barrel. Lock-up of the action The 10 in. barrel appears to be homemade with is clean. Minor damage to the toe of the butt-stock and butt-plate, the heavy veritas at the breach-plug, 17 in. overall front swivel is missing. The trigger-guard wears the rear spur. See length. The nose-cap is of brass and crudely photos for details. No attempt has been made to fire this gun. No sales made. The hardwood stock is covered in bone to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. Est. $1500-3000 and ebony inlays. The buttplate is secured with two heavy screws. HWAC# 122913 This gun appears to have been made from lock parts repurposed for display. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, or Hawaii. Lot# 3576 French Flintlock Boot Pistols, For display purposes only. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 122905 Pair This is a pair of French boot pistols. They are not a matching pair but very closely related. Lot# 3582 RARE Colt Armory By JW & JS Both pistols are about 7 in. in overall length, Moulton. The Colt Armory is a historic factory about .41 cal./ 10.7 mm smooth-bore, and both complex for the manufacture of firearms, are flintlock ignition. One has a right -hand lock created by Samuel Colt. It is located in Hartford, and the other has a left-hand lock. That way Connecticut along the Connecticut River. Ken Prag the owner was prepared for self-defense no matter which boot he had Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123203 access to first! The left-hand lock pistol is marked LaPage on the lock- plate , iron furniture, round smooth-bore barrel vine engraved design, ebony ramrod, soft main spring and worn tumbler, european relief carved walnut stock. The right-hand lock pistol is not marked, iron furniture, octagon smooth-bore with fluted design engraving, ebony ramrod, strong main spring on a solid tumbler, worm holed european walnut stock. Both pistols are closely matched and perfect for display. No bluing or browning remains on greyed patinated metal. C. 1800. No attempt has been made to fire these guns. No sales to New York City, New Jersey, California, and Hawaii. Est. $1200-2000 HWAC# 122911 182 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Political / Americana Lot# 3583 Two Dig-up Revolvers These are Lot# 3588 London, 1753-1814 Early London two dug-up revolvers from the Black Powder Publications Five small publications: era. A) is a 5-shot marked U.S. Revolver Co. that the Weekly Entertainer (1792), Analectic has the hammer missing, chambered in .32 cal, Magazine (1814), European Magazine (1790), black powder with a 2-1/2 in round barrel. and The World (1753). All appear to have been provenance of the J.M. Davis Arms Museum, removed from their original bindings. Sizes range from 5 x 8 inches up Oklahoma JDM #8778; and the other B) is a black powder rimfire .22 to 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches. See photos for condition details. Est. $100- cal, 10-shot, maker unknown, that is frozen and non-working, on a 3 200 HWAC# 124639 inch barrel, silver plated, provenance also from the J.D. Davis Arms Museum, Ok. JMD #8774. This gun has a swept-back hammer similar Lot# 3589 London, 1790s Gentleman’s and to the Colt Bisley design. It also has a unique gas port on the barrel London Magazines Five sections, removed just forward of the cylinder; possibly to reduce recoil when held in from bound volumes, of The Gentleman’s a delicate hand or as a lady’s gun. The trigger guard and grips are Magazine, also titled The London Magazine Or, missing. Please photos for condition and design details. No sales to Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer. Dates from California, New York City, New Jersey, or Hawaii. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 1745, 1757, 1769, and 1778. The fifth piece is 108428 Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Political Club, unknown date. All are in excellent Lot# 3584 ` Wild Bunch 1911 Holster and condition for being more than 200 years old. Belt Rig This is a custom RH holster, belt, Some water stains on the Journal, and dog- and magazine pouch for the 1911 frame Colt eared corners and minor tears on others. See photo for condition and clones made by Bob Mernickle out of details. Includes a Manifesto of the K. of Prussia against the court of Pampa. Texas. The holster is a joint effort design by World Champion Dresden, a fold-out New Map of His Majesty’s Hanover Dominions by Cowboy Action Shooter Gene “Evil Roy” Pearcey and World Fast T. Kitchin, geog., The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Draw Champion Bob Mernickle and part of the “Wild Bunch Series”of Vth, By William Robertson D.D., and On Modern Marriages. See photos Cowboy Action Shooting. The holster shows very little wear and the for condition details. All approx 5 x 8 inches. Est. $100-200 HWAC# belt measures out to 42 in. A loop design in the holster competes the 124642 appearance for period correct turn-of-the-century authentic cowboy. The belt includes a two mag. pouch and 10 individual bullet loops. Lot# 3590 1750 The Rambler, 1750, Two The belt is suede lined for comfort. The holster is loose fit with a toggle Issues Two issues of The Rambler, a four- to secure the hammer that swings loose and out of the way. This is page publication on various subjects. Here we truly a custom gun rig in “gunslinger brown” stamped US in several have an issue dated May 1, 1750, and another places. No excuses for slow shooting now with this rig. Est. $200-300 dated may 12, 1750. Printed for J. Payne and HWAC# 108704 J. Bouquet. These are interesting in that the typography of the time printed the letter s in a tall form that looks like the letter f when the Political letter appears at the beginning or in the midst of a word, but not at the Lot# 3585 1948 Award Warrant Presented end of a word. Size is 7-3/8 x 11-3/4 inches. See photos for condition details. Est. $60-200 HWAC# 124644 to American Colonel Award to American Colonel Paul L. Freeman Jr, who served during Lot# 3591 1779 The Scots Magazine - July WWII and Korea. In 1944, he was sent to Brazil, to serve as Director of 1779 July 1779 edition of The Scots Magazine, Arms Training, later served as head of the Latin American Branch of purportedly the oldest publication in the world the Plans and Operating Division, then from 1948 to 1950, served as STILL IN PUBLICATION! This is a fifty-six page, a member of the Joint Brazil-U.S. Military Commission, and was also 5 x 8-inch publication, printed in Scotland a member of the U.S. Army delegation to the Inter-American Defense with article titles such as, A Manifesto: Board. This was more than likely the reason Freeman was noticed by France’s Motives for Her Conduct Toward England, and another titled President Juan Peron. Certificate measures 16”x 22” and is in good Parliament: Commons on the Offers to America, and On the Popery condition with some light staining. Please see photos for more detail Laws: Speeches in the General Assembly. There is also a section for and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 119334 Poetry, for Books, and Historic Affairs including England, Ireland, Lot# 3586 London, 1710-1712 Curious and Scotland and the births, deaths, and marriages of the day. It is interesting to see the f-shaped letter s where it appears within a word Amusements for the INGENIOUS Two (but not at the beginning or end of a word) and the typographic styles original copies of The British Apollo: or, Curious from the eighteenth century. A more modern stiff paper cover has been Amusements for the INGENIOUS to which are glued onto the original magazine which has some breaks in the spine, Added the most Material Occurrences Foreign but it is otherwise in amazingly good condition for a 240-year-old and Domestic. Vol III, Numb. 11, April 21st, paper document. See photos for details. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125200 1710; and Vol III, Numb. 141, February 16th, 1711. Each four pages, 7-3/4 x 12-1/4 inches, Lot# 3592 New York 1935 Calendar, Socialist Labor in fair condition for 200-plus-year-old documents. These contain Party of America. 1935 calendar (12 months) of Socialist poetry, articles, and advertisements. Please see photos for details. Est. Labor Party of America w/photo Daniel Deleon 1852- $100-200 HWAC# 124643 1914, emblem of the party below photo. Quotations Lot# 3587 London, 1901 Death of the Queen, from Marx, Engels and DeLeaon, events Lenin’’s death, Amman’s’ s sufferage and unity address, etc.The Party Illustrated London News January 26, 1901 issue of is the oldest Socialist Party in the U.S., est. 1876 and the Illustrated London News with the headline, Death was originally known as the Workman’s Party changing of the Queen, chronicling the end of the Victorian Age it’s name in 1877 and later in 1899 merged w/Social with the passing of England’s Queen Victoria. The Democratic Party of America.. Very rare. Calendar is in interior pages begin at 97 and end at 148. The pages very good condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# cover the history of Queen Victoria’s long reign over 122202 the English Empire. Size is 12 x 16-1/2 inches. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 124610 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 183

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Political / Americana Lot# 3593 1800’s Abolitionist Signatures Lot# 3598 1860 President James Buchanan and Letter. Lot of 19. Handwritten notes, Autographed Document, 1860 Signed Land papers and original signatures. Among the Patent by Buchanan for land given to a Mexican signatures: Marcus Morton Mass. Governor War veteran, John Fulton, a seaman on the for two terms 1839 &1842. A paper The USS Constitution. Property near Junction City, Gem published March 1859 #1. A collection Kansas. Reverse stain from seal in signature, of handwritten poems. Geo. F. Hoar Sen. Mass another stain at ancient tape repair at right. 10 1877-1904. Handwritten “First Chapter of the x 15” Est. $800-2000 HWAC# 125233 Coran” Julius Ferrete and written in Arabic on the back.. Francis P. Blair Jr. US Senator and representative for Missouri. Moncure Conway Lot# 3599 President McKinley Stereo-view signed note 1886. Others provide the opportunity for research. Collection Lot of 20. Includes portraits of Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 120345 Mr. and Mrs. McKinley, President McKinley’s address at the Pan American Exposition, Lot# 3594 1888 Fisk & Brooks - Presidential McKinley in the White House, Cardinal Gibbons Election 1888 Stereo-view Rare presidential benediction at the McKinley / Dewey sword presentation, McKinley memorabilia in this stereoview. Published by and Cabinet and Laying McKinley to rest. Mostly Underwood and Littleton View of Littleton, New Hampshire. Underwood, with some Jarvis, Keystone and Kilburn. One is hand Number 1431. Fisk and Brooks ran on the colored. Duplicates. Ken Prag Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 123213 Prohibition Ticket in 1888. “Dare to do Right” was their motto! Clinton Bowen Fisk was a senior officer during Lot# 3600 President McKinley Stereoviews Reconstruction in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned 2 stereos of McKinley in life. Keystone and Lands and served as the Prohibition Party’s presidential candidate Underwood views. No 1698 and 48 respectively. during the 1888 presidential election. Fisk University was named in Est. $100-150 HWAC# 125797 his honor after he endowed Fisk University with $30,000. In addition, he helped establish the first free public schools in the South for white and African-American children. Ken Prag Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 123229 Lot# 3595 Geo. Washington Portrait and Facsimile Letter Framed portrait of George World’s Fair Washington mounted beside a facsimile of a letter to the Earl of Buchan on the principle that should guide the United States in connection with foreign politics, on the new city of Lot# 3601 President Teddy Washington, etc.; Philadelphia, 22 Apr., 1793. Roosevelt Pictorial Group Professionally mounted, matted, and framed Lot of four. 1) At Glacier Point, in faux marble-textured wood and glass, all in Yosemite. Stereo view. 1912. 2) very good condition. Overall size is approx. 29-3/4 x 25-3/4 inches. President and Mrs. Roosevelt. See photos for content details. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125197 1903 souvenir. stereo view. 3) Cabinet card. Copyright Fred Lot# 3596 1861 Lincoln Inauguration, Eng. 4) Post card - “Please Run Harper’s Weekly The leads off with a full- or I’ll have to Vote for Bryan.” page drawing of Lincoln arriving by coach. Post card. Signed by Hunber. Inside is a two-page drawing of Lincoln giving Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 his inaugural address. Also, a drawing of HWAC# 123456 Buchanan and Lincoln. Short article on the inauguration. The rest of the main articles are military related: interior of Fort Sumpter, drawing of frigate Sabine off Fort Pickens, scenes of the Norfolk Naval Yards, etc. Has very light Lot# 3602 1898-1978 Three Pieces of foxing and very slight tears on left. For a 150 year old newsprint this is Prohibition Lot of 3. 1. Booklet “Prohibition extremely nice condition. The newspaper is in a hard, custom binder Facts” by Allied Forces for Prohibition, Fourth in excellent condition. We have handled as little a possible to preserve printing 1932. History of alcohol prohibition in US, Canada and the wonderful condition of these old papers. Est. $200-300 HWAC# Europe. Even has Fake news of the time. 2. St. Christopher pendant of 123097 Rev. J. Cardiacs convicted in 1978 of embezzling $2.2 million from the Catholic group Pallotine Fathers and sentenced to one year in prison Lot# 3597 Photo of Lou Hoover (H. Herbert’s (Note attached to pendant). 3. Silver badge Demorest Prohibition Prize Wife) Autographed Black and white photo of issued 1898. Demorest Prize created by philanthropist W. Jennings Lou Hoover, the wife of American president Demorest in 1886 to encourage young people to recite speeches of Herbert Hoover, with a personalized note temperance movement leaders. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100- written to Aunt laura Belle and signed by Mrs. 200 HWAC# 122146 Hoover. Approx 13-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. At some time in the past, this photo was folded, Lot# 3603 1900’s Unsuccessful Presidential and a two-inch tear developed in the crease at Candidates Photo & Post Cards Collection the top. A small 1/2-inch tear appears at the Multiple groups of both post cards and bottom. It appears to have once been mounted Candidate photo shots of the likes of William into an album along the left edge. Photographer’s imprint in the scene Jennings Bryant, 1940 William Willkie, actual is Underwood & Underwood. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $300-500 Landon & Knox GOP campaign buttons, 1916 HWAC# 124604 Hughes & Fairbanks, George Wallace, Walker & Magnenis, and the Chafie-Watkins 1908 Prohibition platform. Excellent condition. John Reynolds Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 122033 184 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 General Americana / World’s Fair / Expositions Lot# 3604 1867 Paris 1867 Lot# 3610 Chicago, Illinois Exposition Stereo-view 1933 Souvenirs From Collection Lot of thirty- A Century of Progress one Twenty-nine from the World’s Fair Chicago same series. Includes Gallery 1933-4 A collection of of Machinery, Bronzes items from the Chicago from Prussia, French Park, World’s Fair of 1933-34 French section statues and “A Century of Progress.” paintings, Saloon of Awards, The Official Guide book, Horticultural Gardens, French paperback, 192 pages, a Crystal, Distribution of Prizes, leather bookmark, a copper Belgian Park, Inauguration, bookmark, a booklet of statue of King William of admission tickets, and a Prussia, arrival of the Czar of metal dust pan and broom with scenes from the Fair. Salvatore Falcone Russia, Egyptian Park, Aquarium, Napoleon I statue, French porcelains, Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 124248 English crystals, Turkish section. etc. All have an orange paper with information on reverse. One additional of Algiers section. Ken Prag Lot# 3611 Chicago, Illinois 1893 World’s Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 123220 Columbian Exposition Collection A collection of souvenirs from the Chicago Lot# 3605 San Francisco, California 1894 World’s Fair “The White City” of 1893. Chicago California Midwinter Fair Exposition Tribune Souvenir booklet of glimpses of the Stereo-view Group Lot of three. Two are hand World’s Fair and the Midway Plaisance, in good colored: Wonders of Wool and Liberal Arts condition with dozens of black and white photos of the buildings of Building. Two inside shots. Also “Let us smile. the Fair. Advertising brochures from California companies: California Faded! Copyright RW Kilbourn, 1894. Ken Prag Fig Syrup, The Notion Store of San Jose. Kingsford Starch, an official Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 123217 souvenir post card and four admission tickets. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124246 Lot# 3606 San Francisco, California 1915 Panama Canal Completion Expo California Lot# 3612 Chicago, Illinois 1933-1939 World’s Expo San Francisco Panama Completion. Obv. Fair Magazine Trio Program magazines from Ship passing through the canal engraving., rev: the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, “A Century Calif state seal. HK 414, AU+-uncirc. Brass, of Progress” and the 1939 World’s Fair in New 35mm. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-120 York. The three books give views information HWAC# 122196 of each of the fairs in color photos, illustrations and text. All three are in very nice condition, considering their age. Lot# 3607 San Francisco, California 1915 The Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $100-150 HWAC# Architecture & Landscape Gardening of the 125443 Panama Pacific Exposition Hardback volume by Louis Chritian Mullgardt, 202 pages with Lot# 3613 St. Louis, Missouri Louisiana many drawings and photographs. “A pictorial Purchase Exposition Stereo-view Collection survey of the most beautiful of the architectural Lot of thirteen. Includes four James M Davis: compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.” Salvatore kings of the dairy, king of the Clydes. celebrated Falcone Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 124247 Herefords and a scenic view. HC White: Festival Lot# 3608 Chicago, Illinois 1893 Colombian Hall and Ed Hodgson of El Paso Illinois and his horse. Also Pres. Francis address, Grand Exposition Stereo-view Collection Lot of 10. Basin, Plaza of S. Louis, Education and Social All copyrighted by H. W. Kilburn, 1893. Four Economy Building, etc. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 123214 cards (one duplicate) of the wonderful Ferris Wheel. (Ferris was a Nevada boy and he go Lot# 3614 St. Louis, Missouri 1904 Sperry the idea from watching a water wheel on the & Co. Advertising Card from the St. Louis Carson River).) Also Donegal Castle, Fountain World’s Fair Colorful store card (6 x 3 1/2 and Basin, The Illumination, opening day and the surging sea of inches) with a view of the Manufacturers and humanity, Magic City, Pres. Cleveland giving his address. Some are Liberal Arts Building at the St. Louis World’s fading. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-180 HWAC# 123216 Fair. The back side sells Sperry’s Flour (Always Reliable) of Stockton, California. Salvatore Lot# 3609 Chicago, Illinois 1893 Memorial Falcone Collection Est. $30-60 HWAC# 124242 Book of the 1893 Exposition A beautiful edition of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 Lot# 3615 St. Louis, Missouri 1904 St. Louis (AKA: The Chicago Worlds Fair), put together World’s Fair Stereo-view Colelction Lot by The Joint Committee of Ceremonies. This of 35. Includes 24 Photocolortype Views. 320 top edge gilded page hardcover volume In original box, although the box is in poor contains information through text and black condition. Also three colored stereo-views: and white photographs, celebrating the 400th flower fringed path, Machinery Hall and west Anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New World.The lagoon and gardens. . Others are the Austrian front title cover also appears to have gold embossed lettering. Though Building, Washington State Building, West the spine has some issues, the book is in good, intact condition, with Pavilion, Festival Hill, Palace of Manufacturers, no torn of missing pages. A beautiful addition to an actual book library. German Building, etc. Ken Prag Collection Est. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone $100-150 HWAC# 123215 Collection Est. $200-400 HWAC# 124593 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 185

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 General Americana / World’s Fair / Expositions Lot# 3616 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lot# 3622 1865 Capture of Jefferson Davis 1876 Centennial Exposition Stereo-view Harper’s Weekly, May 27, 1865. Also President Collection (25) Lot of 25/ Twenty one Lincoln’s Burial, Lewis Payne who shot ‘Centennial Photographic International Secretary Seward, the Supreme Court and the Exposition’ by Wilson and Adams. Includes crimes of Davis, Battles at Fort Mahone and Italian area, Lots of sculptures, Grand Ballroom, Mobile, etc. Excellent condition! Est. $100-200 Siamese area, Corliss engine, Nebraska area, HWAC# 123106 Rocky Mountain Museum, Philadelphia Avenue, etc. Some dups. Four International Exhibition: International Lot# 3623 c1863 Civil War and Slavery Lot Hall, Horticulture Building, General view (one duplicate). Ken Prag of five. Four Harper’s Weekly include 1) July Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 123218 29, 1865. The create labor question from a Southern Point of View. Has a drawing of a Lot# 3617 Jamestown, Virginia 1907 The white plantation owner reading a newspaper and a black farmer who Jamestown Exposition Illustrated Official is not working his field anymore. 2) January 18, 1862. Scene in the Publication Held in 1907 to commemorate parlor of Mr. Barnwell (African American) house at Beaufort, South the 300th anniversary of the founding of Carolina. 3) August 2, 1862. Slaves digging a canal opposite Vicksburg. Jamestown. The exhibition emphasized 4) Map of the Southern States showing the relative proportion of athletics and military prowess, with a display the slaves in the south. This is the one item in the entire collection of war ships. Among many dignitaries who that has condition issues, still it has amazing historical significance. visited the exposition were U.S. president 5) NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD, September 9, 1847, New Theodore Roosevelt, the author Mark Twain and the educator Booker York. Overall in very nice condition for newsprint material that is over T. Washington. The official publication is filled with photographs of 150 years old! We have handled as little a possible to preserve the the buildings and people involved and is 11 x 9 inches, and in very wonderful condition of these old papers. Est. $80-200 HWAC# 123108 good condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 124305 Lot# 3624 Civil War Campaign of 1861 in Lot# 3618 Seattle, Washington 1909 Alaska newsprint This is a collection of thirty-seven Yukon Pacific Exposition Repro. Photos Lot (37) issues of the New York Herald, New of 4. 1) Two reproduction photos: view of busy York Times, and The New York Tribune all in 1861 with one issue in street, “Pay Streak,”; and women walking around Dec. 1860 (NYT) updating the Civil War. Read about the history as it unusual building. 4.5 x 6.5” 2) Early printed happened not by a revisionist. Est. $700-1200 HWAC# 125081 postcard by OD Goetze, Nome, Alaska, showing an Eskimo woman. Not mailed. 3) Postcard of Lot# 3625 Civil War Campaign of 1862 in excursion party on Seward Peninsula Railway. the New York Times This is a lot of fourteen Not posted. Est. $60-100 HWAC# 113166 (14) issues of the New York Times all in May of 1862 calling the defeat of the Rebels a “foregone conclusion”and a Lot# 3619 Seattle, Washington Alaska Yukon “probable capture of the whole rebel force.” All mounted professionally Pacific Exposition Souvenir Plate Made and in very good condition. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125082 by E. P. Charlton & Co. of Seattle for the 1909 AYPE Exposition. Features scenes from the Fine Arts Building, Mining Lot# 3626 Civil War Campaign of 1865 Building, Washington Building and the Agriculture Building. Five in newsprint This is a collection of six (6) inches in diameter. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# newspapers from 1865: The New York Times: 124118 Sherman; Cincinnati Daily Commercial: Northern Traitors in the South; The New York Herald: The Last Swath of Sherman; The New York Tribune: the Campaign of Virginia; the New York Herald: The Military Capture of Fort Fisher; The New York Times: The Belligerent Rights of the Rebels at an End. Est. $100-300 HWAC# 125080 Lot# 3627 1860’s Civil War Documents & Lot# 3620 1862-1865 English Look at the Photos Includes 12 Civil War era documents & photos, including a death notice for Union Civil War through Newspapers (7) Lot of soldier James Shuff in 1865, leave papers for another soldier, the seven. Two Spectator newspapers. One with written report of a skirmish, the post mortem of a child in 1865 and long article on Davis & Lee and one on the fall several copied maps of various battles like the Battle of Franklin. If you of Richmond. Two 1862 London Times with are a Civil War buff or enactor, this lot’s for you. Documents are ingot articles on New York statement of support condition. Researched and typed documents translate the hard to read for war, General McNeil’s assassination of 10 Confederate prisoners, letters. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124529 Confederates overcoming great odds, etc, Evening Mail in 1862 With fallout from General McNeil’s misjudgment. The next ten Union officers Lot# 3628 1862-1865 Civil War Ships in captured are to be executed per President Davis, unless the General Action, Harper’s Weekly Lot of 8. Includes is turned over for a trial. Two ‘The Scotsman.’ Includes struggles at ships at Mobile, The Nashville and Tuscarora at Bull Run bridge, a criticism of the handling of Manassas, a Confederate Southampton England, the two gun Lady Davis, advance, etc. Many articles are quite lengthy. Est. $120-250 HWAC# iron-clad fleet obstructing the James River, 123186 Steamer Berkshire aflame on the Hudson, the Lot# 3621 New York City, New York New Merrimac, and the AMERICAN LIFE-RAFT the York Tribune Covering the Civil War 1862 CROSSED THE ATLANTIC. These are just on the outside, Additional drawings and stories will certainly fill the interior pages. Overall in (58 Issues) This is a collection of New York very nice condition for newsprint material that is over 150 years Tribune daily issues pertaining to the Civil War between Jan 1, 1862 old! We have handled as little a possible to preserve the wonderful to May 30, 1862 for a total of 58 issues. Forty-four are with maps or condition of these old papers. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 123104 diagrams of forts and troop movements. A researchers’ resource first- hand. Est. $1000-2000 HWAC# 125077 186 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Military / Civil War Lot# 3629 1860’s Civil War Theft report, Lot# 3635 c1863 Looking at the South in Envelopes & Token Lot of 5. Three small the Civil War Lot of four. 1) April 11, 1863, evelope’s w/color vignettes of seated Liberty, Difficulties among the Bayous. 2) May 9, 1863, Eagle fighting snake w/American flags and Defender. One patriotic Picket Duty in the Swamps of Louisiana. 3) token Liberty obverse 1863, Army & Navy reverse.Property theft May 2, 1863, Rolling Cotton on board the ship report State of Indiana filed Sept 1865. All in VG or better. Salvatore ‘Tatum’. 4) May 7, 1864, Union scouts in Louisiana. Also 1861 article Falcone Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 122180 from Punch and life in Charleston – delivered with Punch tongue-in- cheek. Overall in very nice condition for newsprint material that is Lot# 3630 Confederate News and Southern over 150 years old! We have handled as little a possible to preserve the Papers 1860’s This is a lot of nineteen (19) wonderful condition of these old papers. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 123107 newspaper groupings from the South during and after the Civil War. Papers are from Richmond, Virginia 1861; Lot# 3636 New York Herald news cover Norfolk, Virginia, New Orleans 1862, Atlanta, Petersburg, Va. 1862, stories of the Civil War 1864 This is a lot of 1863, 1865, 1869; Houston 1864; St. Louis 1863. All issues in good about 30 cover issues of the New York Herald to very good condition. History as it was written and by who writes it. from Jan. 1 to June 30, 1864. Feb. 12 states “Sherman’s army captures Est. $400-800 HWAC# 125075 the Railroad Center of South Carolina without a serious engagement.” March 4 “Sheridan’s destruction of Rebel roads and supplies.” “Rebel Lot# 3631 Foreign Newspaper accounts loss fully two thousand”. Professionally mounted in very good of the Civil War 1862 This is a lot of condition. Est. $600-1200 HWAC# 108718 nine (9) newspaper accounts by foreign correspondents on the Civil War. The (London) Times Dec. 10, 1862 Lot# 3637 New York Herald news cover p.9 on Fredericksburg; The Scotsman Dec. 25, 1862 bombardment of stories of the Civil War late 1864 This is a Fredericksburg; THe Scotsman Aug. 23, 1862 on the advancement of lot of about 29 cover stories of the progress McClellan; The Scotsman Sept. 10, 1862 battles in Virginia Valley; The of the Civil War from July to Dec. 31, 1864 in the New York Herald. Times Oct. 28, 1862 skirmishes around the Potomac, Federal forces Headlines from Sept. 4 “ Sherman’s Flank Movement” on Atlanta with in Nashville will not surrender; Evening Mail Aug. 17, 1863 battle at a map. October 9’s headline “The Defense of Richmond” depicted in Appomattox; The Times Nov.1, 1862; The Times Nov. 12, 1862 law of a map. All are professionally mounted in very good condition. Est. Blockade; The Times Nov. 7, 1862 shipping news, damages ships. All $600-1200 HWAC# 108719 in very good condition. Est. $140-250 HWAC# 125074 Lot# 3638 1863 New York Herald Lot# 3632 1861 Frank Leslie’s Pictorial Newspapers Covering Civil War This is History of the War of 1861 Twelve pages. a lot of about 39 cover stories of the Civil With cover page. Stories and period drawings War dating Jan., 1863 to June,1863. Cover of the beginning of the Civil War! Est. $50-100 stories professionally covered and mounted. HWAC# 123112 Condition is excellent on all. Est. $800-1500 HWAC# 108715 Lot# 3633 Dec28,1860 Fremont Journal: Possible Succession from the Union, What is Lincoln going Lot# 3639 New York Newpapers Covering to do? Fremont Journal front page.. Articles just the Civil War This is a lot of about 21 full after the Election of Lincoln and the resignation of coverage pages of the Civil War progress from the Senators from South Carolina with the passage the Evening Mail, New York Tribune, and the New York Herald. All are by South Carolina legislature 169-0 vote to dissolve professionally mounted from July, 1863 to Dec 31, 1863 with coverage them from the union. Discussion on the what if South of the battle at Gettysburg dated July 7, 1863! Also the fall of Vicksburg Carolina secedes, What would Buchanan do if this and other worldwide news. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 108716 occurs before Lincoln takes office. How will Lincoln react. A letter from Buchanan to a citizen regarding Lot# 3640 New York Newspapers Covering the issue. And an Interesting article on giving a man his freedom. the Civil War Sixteen copies total from the New Paper is in good condition, small stain at top, no tears. Plastic holder York Times Nov. 20, 1961 with map repaired, for protection. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 122131 Jan. 3, 1962 with map, Feb, 22, 1862 with map of a fort, Feb. 25, 1862, Feb. 15, 1862, March 6, Lot# 3634 1862-1865 LARGE Collection of 1862, April 19,1862 with map, May 10, 1862 Harper’s Weekly’s featuring the Civil War with map, May 1862 with a map, May 8, 1862 Lot of forty-one. Includes General Sheridan and supplement with map, May 31, 1862 with map, June 28, 1862 with the Battle of Five Forks, General Candy and City Point Virginia, Rear map, July 4, 1962 with map cover page only, April 28, 1864, March, Admiral Farragut biography, General Stoneman, Major General Grant 1865; Northhampton Free Press Dec 15, 1963; Detroit Tribune May, the hero of Fort Donelson, General Halleck and field artillery, heroes 1864; New York Herald Dec. 3, 1861 with map, Jan. 5, 1863, June 1, of the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, General Mitchell (also drawing 1864 with maps; New York Tribune 1862-1865 no map. Read about of Southern officer forcing ‘Negroes’ to load a cannon at gun point), the Civil War and Negroe engagement from first-hand encounters not General Stoneman and Cold Harbor, General Butterfield (with drawing revisionists. Est. $400-600 HWAC# 125076 and diagram of the new Rebel Iron-clad the Richmond), General Pope biography, General Nathaniel Banks, General Hooker and the Lot# 3641 New York Times cover stories Army of the Potomac, Little Mac, crossing the Ohio on a pontoon of the Civil War This is a lot of seven cover bridge, the Army of the Cumberland railroading through the Big Cut, stores from the New York Times in 1862 giving Libbey Prison escape, Dutch Gap Canal of General Butler, Petersburg coverage of the Civil War. All are mounted in siege, General Jim Lane, 5th New York Regiment, etc. Of course they professional holders. April 28, the capture all come with drawings of the period! Overall in very nice condition of New Orleans, April 22 General McDowell for newsprint material that is over 150 years old! We have handled against Fredericksburgh, April 18 news from as little as possible to preserve the wonderful condition of these old the Mississippi Valley, April 10 the Conflict in the Southwest, April papers. Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123103 3 General Sherman’s operation on the Savannah River, April 9 the battles in Virginia, April 19 field operations in the Cotton States. Est. $260-400 HWAC# 108714 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 187

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Military / Civil War Lot# 3642 New York Times cover stories Lot# 3649 New York Tribune issues of the Civil War 1863 This is a set of five (5) covering the Civil War July-December 1862 hard bound professionally mounted binders This is a collection of 35 issues of the New for the New York Times in 1863. There is the cover stories from Jan York Tribune that covers July to December of 1862 of the Civil War. 31 the war in Louisiana, , March 31 with news of naval battles of Port Antietam is covered giving President Lincoln the momentum to deliver Hudson on the Mississippi, May 9 on Hooker’s Army, June 16 a new the Emancipation Proclamation. Most issues have maps to follow. Est. Rebel Movement Northward, and November 28. Est. $100-300 HWAC# $200-300 HWAC# 125079 108717 Lot# 3650 1861 Lot# 3643 New York Times cover stories NY Times !861 of the Civil War 1864 This is a lot of five (5) Civil War Oct cover stories from the Civil War late 1864. 1-31 Lot of 4. 1. Several headlines are depicted in maps. The May 8 issue “combined Oct 1. The Great movements in Virginia”; May 11 “Grant’s movement”, Gen. Butler’s Rebellion. The army”; May 13 has great prose on army advancements; June 1 is seat of the War one large map-closing in on Richmond the capital of the South; in Kentucky Dec. 2, Sherman in Georgia, and “Rebel Sources”, all are must reads, w/ map. professionally mounted in very good condition. Est. $120-300 HWAC# Update from 125073 Washington. The Rebellion in Missouri. 2. Oct. 5. THe Great Rebellion. Seat of the Lot# 3644 New York Times cover stories of War in Missouri w/map of both Missouri and Iowa. Gen. McClellan the Civil War late 1862 This is a collection of issues a statement that the press will abstain from mention the Naval six (6) cover stories from the New York Times Expedition against the South. 3. Oct 24. No maps. Updates on the for Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. of 1862. The taking of Harper’s Ferry by Great Rebellion in Missouri, Lexiington evacuation, and Kentucky. The the South, “the long roll” (of drums) and a Union officer dismounts his Great Expedition of Naval forces from Annapolis. 4. Oct. 31. Diagram horse to fight with revolvers in each hand. All professionally mounted of Battle of Balls Bluff showing positions of Union and Rebel troops, and in very good to excellent condition. Est. $220-400 HWAC# 125085 hospitals etc.. The Great Expedition naval forces departs. Trial on the Lot# 3645 New York Times cover stories of last pirates. Updates on all current battles. All are in good condition hard binders w.gold lettering. Est. $300-600 HWAC# 122134 the Civil War March 1862 This is a collection of fourteen (14) issues of the New York Times Lot# 3651 1862 NY Times Civil War June, July covering the Civil War during the month of March 1862. All with maps. Sept 1861, The Great Rebellion Continues You can read about the preparation for taking of North Carolina one Lot of 3. NY Times paper’s hardcovers with day and reporting the taking of North Carolina the next day! The gold lettering and plastic overlay’s. Articles Federal Government being cheated out of millions of dollars; some : Rebels believed 10,000 strong w/map of things never change. All issues authentic and professionally mounted Fort Pickens. On the ground report from Fort excellent condition. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 125083 Pickens. Possible attack on Washington D.C.. The passing of bill Lot# 3646 New York Times coverage of the authorizing five dollar treasury notes. Possible clothing fraud w/ US Army contracts. How about an excursion out to Staten Island to Civil War January and February of 1862 This visit the troops. Good condition, some small stains on 3 -4 pages. Est. is a lot nine (9) issues of the New York Times $200-350 HWAC# 122132 covering the advancement of the Civil War during the months of January and February 1862. The National Flag flying over Confederate batteries is one headline; Twenty-five hundred rebels taken prisoners. There is a list of all of the Massachusetts regiment officers leaving for battle. On Feb. 17th Rebel Forces fly the black flag meaning they would neither surrender or give quarter! Evidently no winter encampment for either side. Heavy losses on both sides. All professionally mounted in excellent condition. Est. $320-600 HWAC# 125084 Lot# 3647 New York Times coverage of the Civil War June of 1862 This is five (5) issues of the New York Times during June of Lot# 3652 1861 NY Times Civil War. Dec 10-18 1861 Lot of 5. 1862. Follow the advancement of Union troops for Richmond and All are hardbound w/gold lettering. 1. Dec 10. The Approaches to the Seven Days Battles. It includes detailed maps and balloon views the Savannah’s w/ maps of Georgia/South Carolina and Charleston of encampments. Research at your fingertips. Est. $200-300 HWAC# Harbor. Conditions in Tennessee and the Republican Caucus. 2. Dec 125078 11. Topical Map of Virginia The Mason-Slidell affair. Newspapers wager on distribution ( even have political cartoon) 3. Dec 14. Map Lot# 3648 1861 New York Times: The Great of Mississippi from Cairo to Memphis w/ articles regarding the naval Rebellion, maps, troop movements Lot of 4. preparations. The Sumpter escapes from the gunboat Iroquois. Hardbound w/gold lettering New York Times Conditions in Louisiana. 4. Dec.17. The Expeditions of the Gulf w/ Civil War Front Page. Nov. 19, 20, 23 and 27 large map of operations from Ship Island to New Orleans and extensive 1861. Articles include Map of troops Virginia, article on the naval gun battle,. 5. Dec 18. Map of the East Tennessee hoax and false alarms of attackers. Update on Port Royal. Military and Virginia railroad. Update on war in Tennessee, Letter from Port promotions. Map of railroads in the seat of the war in Eastern Royal (battle coming later). A supplement w/map of Charleston, S.C. Kentucky and Tennessee, occupation of Accomac and Potomac. Map of Ravaged from the Great Conflaguration. Est. $400-700 HWAC# 122135 operations in Kanawha Valley, Movements in the Rebel State. Fighting at Fort Pickens. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 122129 188 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Military / WWII Lot# 3653 1861 NY Times Civil War: The Lot# 3658 World War One Bronze Medals Lot Pulpit and the Rebellion Lot of. . New York of three: 1) Clay County Kansas / red,white and Times Nov. 29 &30, and Dec. 4 & 7. 1861. blue ribbon / 1917-18 / United States Forces. Rev.: Civil War correspondence. Hardbound folders Presented by Clay County Kansas to her gallant w.gold lettering. Articles : Update on Port sons in recognition of their patriotic service in the Royal, Sermons on Thanksgiving Day, political prisoners released. World War. 2 x 3 inches. 2) American Ambulance Prisoners arrive from Port Royal. Maps : The Approaches to Savannah, Service Aux Armees France. 3 inches wide, 1 1/4 Florida Rebel camp of 10,000, Operations in South Carolina, map of inches tall. 3) 1918 / blue, white and yellow Eastern Tennessee. Article on the Naval Strength of America, England ribbon / For Democrcy Liberty and Justice; Rev.: and France. All in good condition. Est. $200-300 HWAC# 122130 Presented by the citizens of Rochester N.Y. to their loyal fighting sons / engraved . Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120- Lot# 3654 1861 The 200 HWAC# 124076 Great Naval and Military Expeditions, Battle of Port Lot# 3659 Adolph Hitler Medals Lot of two: Royal Civil Wat Lot of 4. one white metal, 31 mm; the other bronze, 37 New York Herald and New mm. Est. $50-100 HWAC# 124233 Times 1. Framed and well preserved is The New York Herald Nov. 6, 1862 article titled “The Great Naval and Military Expedition”. Regarding one of the Lot# 3660 1940’s WWII Japanese Flight Suit One- earliest amphibious operations of the Civil War with the US Navy piece winter issue flying suit in heavy brown wool and US Army, The page contains articles of information regarding the gabardine. It has a zip fastener from the crotch to fleet’s movement and delays. Two large maps showing Bulls Bay and the neck and a concealed buttoned fly. Both sleeve points of occupation by union forces. Second Map of South Carolina and legs have zip closures. Buttoned collar flap coast and Port Royal. Framed and glass covered. 2. Hardcover folder and ‘open’ pleat fronted knee pockets. Zipped side titled New York Times and dated Nov. 8. 1861 in gold lettering. News entry pocket slits at the waist. Belt with white metal of rebel activity, chase for the Sumter and article on The Battle of Port pronged buckle. Large zipped pockets on each side Royal. Three Maps : progressive from North Carolina to Port Royal. 3. of the chest. Lined throughout with what appears New York Times Nov 12, 1861. (Hard Cover folder). Article and Map on to be rabbit fur. There is also a heavier fur collar. The Speculation and certainty of Beaufort and Port Royal as Neal targets. material is generally in very good condition - there are some small Article on the sinking of the Albatross supply ship loaded with horse holes band some rips in various parts of the suit.l. All metal zips are and supplies. 15,000 rebel troops near Winchester. 4. Nov. 14,1861. original and in excellent working order. The lining is very good and New York Times hardcover. Article and map of the Battle of Port Royal there is no moulting on the collar. No corrosion on the belt buckle. engagement, troops arriving and more. Est. $240-400 HWAC# 122128 The suit is fitted with a leather panel inside at chest level - this has press stud connectors suggesting this was a wired suit. However there are no panels at the wrists or ankles. The main wiring loom has been Lot# 3655 1861, 1863 Two Scientific cut off where it exits the back of the suit (note small repair here too). Americans with Articles on the Weapons of There are ink stamped Kanji marks inside the main front zip flap but War in the Civil War 1861. The Fifteen Inch they are difficult to decipher. Overall this is a very good suit. Est. Iron Gun with a photo of Rodman’s Mammoth $200-400 HWAC# 122862 Cannon. This can take a shell of 300 pounds of weight using 17 pounds of powder. Discuss the statistics of the gun, uses, etc. The use is the brain child of Captain T. J. Rodman of the Ordinance Corp. 1863. Stafford Projectiles. These are the celebrate projectiles of the War in 1863. Front page has 10 Lot# 3661 1940’s Booklets on Axis Aircraft diagrams explained in the article. For a 150 year old newsprint this WWII Lot of 3. Published in 1965 by Aero is extremely nice condition. We have handled as little a possible to Publishers, in cooperation with Ed Maloney preserve the wonderful condition of these old papers. Est. $50-80 Curator of Air Museum. In excellent condition. 1. Heineken HE162. HWAC# 123098 2. Kamikaze aircraft. 3. Messerschmitt 163. Each book covers more aircraft than the title one. Complete with photos, artwork (by Uwe Lot# 3656 1900-50’s Early Historical Feist) and stories on each one. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 Aircraft Photos Lot of 9. Three pages of HWAC# 122143 mounted articles and photos of early aircraft. Two of the photos are RPC’s of aircraft similar to the Wright Bro’s. . 6 Lot# 3662 Collection of U. S. Coast Guard photos and 4 articles. Early bi-panes, ,seaplanes, first type of aircraft Ribbons, Medals, Collar Insignia Lot of 90 carrier. Good condition Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 plus, These are possibly WWII or current HWAC# 122144 deployments. 15 medals US Coast Guard, 35 plus collar rank insignia ( Capt. Commander, Auxiliary ranks, etc)., over 35 ribbons some Lot# 3657 World War I Stereo-view win mounts, cuff links, and tie tacks. One Aux. Public Education Collection World War I era. Lot of 14. The first Svc. Award w/two clusters. All in very good to excellent condition. thirteen have long descriptions on reverse. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $80-180 HWAC# 122141 Twelve are by Keystone and one by HC White. Includes French battleship, submarine, U. S. Lot# 3663 World War II Photo Albums 2 transport ship, Naval training station, English large photo albums and 4 US Army photo sets battleship that sunk the Bluecher, Naval yard, plus ephemera of World War II. Photos include wreck of the Battle ship Maine, British battle training camps, action scenes. One of the albums is entirely based cruiser, USS Pennsylvania, Dups. The last is the USS Texas. Est. $60- on world War II aircraft and a beautiful aircraft embossed album. 100 HWAC# 123208 Approximately 100 photos and some personal items. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 125137 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 189

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Military / WWII Lot# 3664 1918, 1942 WWI & WWII Lot# 3671 WWII Official War Pictures (20) Graduation Panorama’s (4) Lot of 4. 1. US Lot of twenty black and white photos from Navy CO. 42-251, May 1942. 31” x 8”. 2. Two the South Pacific during World War II. Taken 372nd Aero Squadron marked left USA March 1918 returned May at Butaritari and Makin Atoll. Assault landing, 1918 39X8”. 3. Company “A” 749th Military Police Battalion Presidio. wounded, natives and casualties. Marketed by 39X8”. All in good condition Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 Official War Pictures of Forest Hills, New York. HWAC# 122139 The Battle of Makin was fought from 20 to 24 November 1943, on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Salvatore Falcone Lot# 3665 1940’s WWI and WWII Books of Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 124099 War Photos, Articles & Magazines (5) Lot of 5. 1. 1945 Yank Weekly w/drawings of the Lot# 3672 1943 WWII Poster, We’ve Just Begun to after war in Europe, photos, and back in the US and even Sad Sack, Fight WWII Poster with an infantry soldier printed Dusty Anderson Pin Up Girl. 2. A History of the War, paperback with in greyscale with red words above his head, “We have photo, maps of the engagements of WWII (great condition). 3. WWI just begun to fight!” and a list of war fronts: Pearl Photographs That Talk, Battles of France, 18 photos that fold out, good Harbor, Bataan, Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, condition. 4. Two magazines in original mailing envelopes, 1943-44 New Guinea, Bismarck Sea, Casablanca, Algiers, to Virginia Taylor. First magazine is ” Camp Shelby, MS. “, Second “The and Tunisia. OWI Poster No. 62 from the Division Men of the 69th Inf. Div Pass In Review”. Both contain photos of first of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, basic trianing and then advanced training of the infantry. Excellent Washington, DC. Approx 20 x 28 inches, folded into condition, great photos for research. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. eighths, no tears. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100- $100-300 HWAC# 122145 200 HWAC# 124601 Lot# 3666 WWII Bureau of Ships Pocket Lot# 3673 1943-1944 WWII-Era Armored Watch Hamilton pocket watch in white metal News Tabloid Magazine (36 + issues) More case. Enscribed: Bureau of Ships / U.S. Navy / than three dozen issues of WWII-era Armored Comparing Watch / N 11408 - 1943. Twelve News tabloid (11x17-inch) from the years 1943 and 1944. Typically inch chain. Est. $80-150 HWAC# 122664 24 pages each issue. From the Pierce Powell collection at the old Virginia City Depot. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $60-120 HWAC# 108685 Lot# 3667 1940’s WWII ERA Unit Shoulder Insignia Lot of 25 Lot of 25. Three pages Lot# 3674 Florida 1898 Spanish American of mounted shoulder titles from England, Gt War Photo Album A fascinating photo album Britain, Bahamas, Canada, Belgium Netherlands Marines, Norway all showing life in Florida and Cuba for military appear in near new or new condition. US Coast Guard new in package, personnel and civilians during the Spanish Two Scarce (and pricey when located).original WWII Georgian American War. The pictures are mounted on Volunteer German Army sleeve patch, appear in new condition both sides of the 60-page book and , while some are older and faded, (still connected together from embroider. Included is H.J. Saunders most are easy to view and show life in an army camp in both Florida National Guard Shoulder Insignia for buy-sell-trade-collect. Salvatore and Cuba, along with civilians in their day to day lives during a vey Falcone Collection Est. $120-210 HWAC# 122138 tense time in history. The album is in delicate condition, given its age, but still a great collector’s item for any militaria collector. Please see photos for more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 124594 Lot# 3668 1940’s WWII Blood Chits (3) Rare! Three WWII “Blood Chits,” measuring 11”x 8”, 9”x 11” and 8”x 10”, these”chits” were sewn on the flight jackets of American pilots, to help identify them, Lot# 3675 1898 Over 124 Stereoviews should they be shot down over a friendly nation. These three are made of the Spanish American War and the from leather and are in very good condition. Perfect and very rare Philippines Conflict The Spanish–American addition to any military collection. Please see photos for more detail War was an armed conflict between Spain and and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 119337 the United States in 1898. Hostilities began Lot# 3669 1940’s WWII Collection Lot of in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading 30+ Items Lot of 30 plus items. Two published to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war led books: “ They Made Me a Leatherneck” and to the U.S. emerging as predominant in the Caribbean region, and the “ Officers Guide”. Numerous BUSHIPS articles on ship building resulted in U.S. acquisition of Spain’s Pacific possessions. That led to (one on the USS Nevada), shore activities, Restricted document on U.S. involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Naval Correspondence, Guide to naval personnel and defendants. Philippine–American War. A wide variety of shots and scenes. Ken Prag Breakdown charts on different divisions of Bureau of Ships, rating Collection Est. $300-700 HWAC# 123197 guide handbooks.. !946 National Geographic on Air Power for Peace by Gen Of. Army H.H. Arnold, filled w/ photos both color and B/W of Lot# 3676 San Francisco, California 1930- battles, aircraft, Hiroshima, training (aircraft collectors need this one). 1983 U.S. Navy Ship & Ship Life Photos A Believe it is complete (194 pages), three hole punched, no cover, group of 22 black & White photos taken from protective sleeve, this and all other items ar in excellent condition. 1930 to 1983, showing life aboard ship in The United States Navy. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 122142 Most photos are 8’x 10” glosses and show everything from ships Lot# 3670 1942 WWII Correspondence entering through the Golden Gate to a burial at sea. All photos are in good condition. See photos for more detail and condition. Salvatore Between Families Lot of 72 Lot of 72. Falcone Collection Est. $120-150 HWAC# 119336 Correspondence 48 letters Between Sgt Gray and Anita Makinston 1942. 20 loose photos of training camps, soldiers, sailors, families. , Soldiers request of Certificate of captured equipment dated 1945, One framed photo of soldier, soldiers pay/ immunization record.. Good condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-300 HWAC# 122140 190 October 2020

DAY 3 Saturday, Oct 31 Military Lot# 3677 Vallejo, California 1977 Lot# 3682 Military Memorabilia, large Autographed Mare Island History Book An set Large collection of military and airplane autographed copy of “Sidewheelers to Nuclear related memorabilia. Includes the Crescent Power” a history of Mare Island. Book and Color Guide to Military Aircraft by Michael small accompanying pamphlet have several Taylor; pistol, rifle, and carbine Army Field very colorful ship’s decals. Book in very nice Manuals; two American Red Cross First Aid condition and would be a great addition to any military collection. Textbooks; the Official Guide to the Army Air Please see photos for more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Forces Special Edition for AAF Organizations (380 pages); National Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 119362 Geographic reprint of December 1953 on the future of Aviation; magazine clipping of Nuclear Attack and Industrial Survival; Army Lot# 3678 Challenge Coins and Display Case Housewife sewing kit in green khaki cloth bag; two photographs of Solid oak display case containing approx 38 young men in uniform; US Army cloth patch; Aviation Stamp Classics challenge coins, one high-relief, brass buckle issues for Amelia Earheart and The Dashing Brazilian; 1984 Iwo Jima from Leupold, and 5 small lapel pins, some 3-cent stamp presentation card; and about a dozen photographs and enamelled, some possibly gold plated, all in prints of various aircraft from airships to jet planes. Most poignant is near-mint condition. Examples include Glock a 1950 Western Union telegram from Washington DC informing of the Pistors, Colt, NRA, Remington, Heroes Trust death of PFC Glen Willard Skaggs, a Marine in Korea along with the Streamlight, Smith and Wesson, Panther Arms, among others, and handwritten reaction of a relative at the one-year delay in the return three challenge coins from Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey, USMC. A of the body to the US. See photos for representative sampling of the hinged wooden panel has been added to the bottom of the box so that items in the lot. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 125207 it can be propped up for display on a shelf, desk, or table top. Glass in the cover has been cracked, but it should be very easy to replace. Lot# 3683 1991 ProSet Desert Storm See photo for condition and content details. Est. $500-1000 HWAC# Trading Cards [~800] Approximately 800 full- 125193 color trading cards featuring the equipment, countries, and national figures involved in Lot# 3679 Eleven Letters with Content, Desert Storm. About half of the set is from 1860’s Photograph - MOST OF THE Topps and the other half is by Pro Set (both MATERIAL IS MILITARY! Three letters for copyright 1991). Some are sets of multiple the Civil War. 1) Great letter which talks about the Battle of Savannah. cards that form a single image when placed in a Letter is written fro Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. 2) 1861 letter from grid pattern. Plastic pages with nine cards per Fort Pendleton, Maryland atlking about going to war and what t do if page. Est. $80-120 HWAC# 108747 author is killed in battle. 3) Soldier’s mail from 1918. 4) 1854 German document sent to New York. Martin Creiss. 5) Two 1898 Spanish Lot# 3684 Trench Art, WWI 2 large American War letters. Includes an 1860’s daguerreotype portrait shell casings, beautifully handcrafting (3.25 x 2.5”) of Roads and a tag for John W. Brown, 8-18-17, 5-29-95, into floral pattern trench art. The USNRF, Civil War Postcard featuring the first company of Marion, Ohio first is a 14” long 3.5” diameter marching off to war. Other miscellaneous items from mainly Brown, 75mm brass shell casing. Ornate Boyd and Roads. John Reynolds Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123222 floral designs and the word mother, apparently made by a soldier for his Lot# 3680 Famous U. S. Military Officers mother. Beautifully polishes signed Memorabilia Three signed, annotated B.H. on the bottom. The second piece photographs and a Pakistani plaque: BW photo is 9” tall dated July 1917 on bottom. of The Presidential Citation from Jack Kennedy Also has HI109 C Co. Does not appear to Barnett Hughes, Sept 1945, at Terminal to be signed otherwise. This one Island, California, framed approx 8 x 10 inches; appears to be gold plated and it has BW photo of USN Admiral Harold Stark, 1903 leaf patterns. Trench art is rare today graduate of US Naval Academy who served in and a remnant of the first world war, WWI, WWII, and was Chief of Naval Operations, a sad time in world history. Salvatore approx 10 x 12 inches; Color photo of US Secy Falcone Collection Est. $300-400 of Defense Robert S. McNamara and General Freeman dedicated and HWAC# 125136 autographed by McNamara, mounted on 11 x 14-inch matte board; Wooden plaque from Pakistan Secretary of Defence [sic] Syed Salim Lot# 3685 Veterans Medals (2) Abbas Jilani to Dr William J Perry, US Secretary of Defence [sic], approx 10 x 11-1/4 inches. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $200-500 HWAC# Lot of two: 1976 American Veterans 125840 Bicentennial Medal; Veterans Of Foreign Wars pinback. Salvatore Falcone Collection Lot# 3681 1898-1948 Jane’s Fighting Ships, Est. $30-60 HWAC# 124070 Various Years, 8 Volumes Jane’s Fighting Ships, the classic reference for military equipment. This lot includes 1898 (a modern reprint of the first edition of this series), 1906- 1907, 1919 (modern reprint, two copies) 1940, 1944-45, 1946-47, 1947-48. All are in good condition, though some have a loose page or two at the front. Beautifully illustrated, all are approximately 13 x 8 inches. Reprints had original paper dust covers. Est. $600-1500 HWAC# 108746 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 191

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4007 catalina, california Santa Catalina General Americana Island Collection Dreamy Avalon on Santa Sorted by location AZ-WY Catalina Island has long been a romantic tourist destination. Here is a collection: a stereoview Lot# 4000 Dawson City, Alaska 1900 Sled Dog of ships in the Avalon harbor; Island Ferry time Team at Dawson City Stereo-view Crisp and table; Pleasure Guide; a 1938 tourist brochure; stationary letterheads Clear, Near perfect. Universal View Company. and envelopes with senes from the Island. Salvatore Falcone Collection 1900. Copyright by William H Rau. Ken Prag Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124316 Collection Est. $50-100 HWAC# 123239 Lot# 4008 Columbus, California c1862 Cabin Lot# 4001 Arizona Arizona Stereo-view above Mine Stereo-view by Pond Although Group (with no Grand Canyon) Lot of we could not determine the exact location, Mr. nine. All Keystone View Company. Includes Holabird believes it is in the Columbus area. Roosevelt Dam - two different, Painted Desert. The mining works captured is a masterpiece! cliff dwelling in Walnut Canyon, Red Mountain Titled “Abandoned Gold Mine, Cal., once rich in - two different, Salt River Valley - two the same, precious Metal.”Published by C. L. Pond. Shows some fading and light Petrified Forest. Contrast on these are extremely fine. Most have long discoloration. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123226 descriptions on the back. Ken Prag Collection Est. $60-200 HWAC# 123240 Lot# 4009 Downieville, California 1869 Lot# 4002 Arizona Gran Canyon Stereo- Supreme Court Attorney Certificate This view collection Lot of fifteen. Includes Granite is a document signifying that Attorney J. W. Gorge, Zoroaster Tower, Pipe Creek, Grand Denves motioned in the United States Supreme View Trail, Hance’s Cove, Rowe’s Point, Red Court on behalf of John A. Johnson Esquire of Canon Trail, O’Neill’s Point, Cape Horn, Bright Downieville, California. Document measures Angel Trail, Point Sublime, etc. All are Keystone 15”x 19”and is a little yellowed, but in good or Underwood and Underwood. Contrast is condition. See photos for more detail and generally excellent Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-120 HWAC# 123242 condition. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 122865 Lot# 4003 Anaheim, California Large Disney Lot# 4010 Hobart Mills, California 1901- Collection - OLD Over 75 items. Includes 9 1906 Hobart Mills & Area Ephemera Lot black and white amateur photos from 1956 to 10. !) Hobart Mills. Sierra Nevada Wood and 1959. Eleven early 3-D postcards. Some Dups. Lumber Company: two different billheads, Large Disney on Parade Program - one dollar. Hobart Lumber Mills, 1901 to Carson & Tahoe Large 1957 Sleeping Beauty Program. Tickets, Lumber & Fluming Co. (shipping to Sodaville, Kingdom Club, post cards ticket books, match NV), and Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Co., book, 50c parking, 1955 story of Disney, etc. Ken Prag Collection Est. 1904, to State Bank & Trust in Carson. Plus $300-500 HWAC# 123450 two manuscript letters dateline Hobart Mills, 1905, attached to bank Lot# 4004 Angels Camp, California 1903 Nice invoice. 2) Ephemera from surrounding areas: three Sierra Nevada pair of stage Coach Way Bills for Milton and illustrations from book (Donner Pass, Summit, and Sierra Nevada Pass); letterhead for the Truckee River General Electric Co. to State Angels Stage Line 1Milton Gann proprietor. Bank & Trust in Carson, 1906; and real photo postcard of Lucille Lake Henry Gregson was the driver. One passenger (Tahoe). Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113168 identified as Mr. Newell. 1) October 13, 1903. Three passengers from Milton to Angels. 2) One Lot# 4011 Lake Tahoe, California Lake Tahoe passenger from Milton to Angels on October Postal History: Tahoe Tavern Pictorial 22, 1903. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123471 Cover plus Early Postcards Lot of 10. 1) Best Lot# 4005 Belmont, California W. C. Ralston is a pictorial Tahoe Tavern corner advertising house in Belmont, California in Stereo- cover, c.1906-1910. Vignette of pine tree with lake in the background. Addressed to San view Watkins was an important 19th century Francisco, but not stamped. 2) Illustrated photographer. Ralston was the King of the corner ad cover for Rustic Cottage Court at Comstock in Virginia City, Nevada c1870! Brockway, Lake Tahoe. Sent in 1934. 3) Seven early postcards including Number 1389. Carleton E. Watkins (1829– a real photo postcard of Tallac House (1908), and early printed color 1916) was an American photographer of the 19th century. Born in cards of Emerald Bay, Cave Rock, Fallen Leaf Lake, Rubicon Point, and New York, he moved to California and quickly became interested in a map of the early auto routes around the lake. Three mailed, 1906- photography. He focused mainly on landscape photography, and 1908, two with Hobart Mills cancels. 4) Early advertising pamphlet for Yosemite Valley was a favorite subject of his. Important photographer Pinecrest, “Resort of Distinctive Little Homes.” Est. $100-200 HWAC# / important financier! Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123225 113650 Lot# 4006 Boca, California 1894-1895 Boca Lot# 4012 Lake Tahoe, California 1881 Tahoe Mill Company Ephemera Lot of 5. 1) Three Tattler Newspaper w/ Article About Stage printed letterheads, 1894-95, two different Driver Hank Monk Vol. I. No. 15. Tuesday, July types. All sent to TH Johnstone of Cedarville, 26, 1881. Tahoe’s miniature newspaper printed California. Regarding shipments of eggs and from the Grand Central Hotel. Ads for steamers flour. 2) Two manuscript documents, dateline “Minnie Moody” and “Gov. Stanford,” as well Boca, from JV Logan to Messieurs Dellepiane as the “Big Bonanza Saloon.” Articles include a & Company. Damaged. Dellepiane was a San funny quote from famous Nevada stagecoach driver Hank Monk about Francisco grocer who would need the Boca ice to ship fresh produce where he gets his trout in the lake. Also news about Western Union; throughout California. According to the Truckee-Tahoe Historical the finest rowboat on the lake; and notable arrivals/departures. 5.5 Society, Boca became a community in 1868 when the Boca Mill & Ice x7” Est. $200-400 HWAC# 113779 Company opened shop. Boca ice and wood also supplied the mines of the Comstock. Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113169 192 October 2020

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4013 Lake Tahoe, California 1939 Tahoe Tavern Lot# 4019 Pomona, California 1875 Los Air Mail Cover & Pictorial Letterhead Lot of 2. Tahoe Angeles Immigration and Land Co-operative Tavern ad. Air Mail cover with Tahoe 1939 cancel and Association Number 39 for 25 shares to LM two 3 cent stamps. Send to Los Angeles. Letter inside is Holt. Signed by LM Holt and president (?). on pictorial letterhead for the Tahoe Inn. Letter writer Large fold on left and small rips. Shows wear wishes someone well and says “The Tavern is closed.” of its age. The Los Angeles Immigration & Land Also mentions she has seen the governor and “he needs Co-Operative Association adopted Pomona, a lot of support to favor a Republican over the many name of the Roman goddess of orchards and Democratic attorneys who are pressuring him...” Est. gardens, for the new settlement in 1875. The name resulted from a $60-100 HWAC# 113652 contest with the winning entry coming from nurseryman Solomon Gates. Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123467 Lot# 4014 Los Angeles, California 1906-1951 Wells Fargo: Personal Employee Papers Lot# 4020 Riverside, California Dr. Jayne’s of George Garfield Greenawalt 1) Box of 23 Expectorant and Syrup of Figs Store Cards business cards. 2) Three 1906 time cards. 3) (2) Lot of two printed store cards from 1934 thank you letter. 4) Eight letters to the Riverside, San Bernardino County. Jas. H. Roe American Consul in Rotterdam. 5) Eight c1940 invites you to try Syrup of Figs to cleanse your letterheads with names addresses and a map. system. Lightner & Rosenthal offer D. Jayne’s 6) Three letters about the American Shell Fish Expectorant as a standard family remedy. The Company, One is on their letterhead. 7) Small 1943 calendar. 8) Sixteen cards are 4 1/2 x 3 inches each. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $40-60 documents pertaining to George’s retirement in 1951. 9) Four 1939 HWAC# 124101 beneficiary documents. 10) Large railway Express Sealed (broken) Envelope. 1951 Fred Holabird Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123181 Lot# 4021 Riverside, California 1941 Pre-WWII Hobby Newspaper Two rare editions of the hobby Lot# 4015 Napa, California c1872 Napa and publication, Trade Winds. Both the October, 1941 Sonoma Wine Company Unissued Stock and November, 1941 editions are marked as No. !. Certificate signed by wine magnate Jacob Each four page issue features stories on collecting Beringer Even though this is not issued, it mostly minerals and rocks, but there is an article does carry the important Beringer signature about collecting fish and reptiles. Each issue is as secretary. This was one of the earliest public entertaining reading about how collecting was companies in Napa. Beringer was pioneer wine maker, whose presence viewed back in the 1940’s a month before the war. is still felt today. His signature is very rare, as are early Napa wine Papers in good condition. Please see photos for documents of this nature. Worthy of a great Napa wine collection.’XS’ more detail and condition. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of cancelled. Slightest edge discoloration. Not edge or corner issues. Fred Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $60-100 HWAC# 124515 Holabird Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 123163 Lot# 4022 San Francisco, California 1870’s Ad Lot# 4016 Nevada City, California 1905- Page For Marcus C. Hawley & Co. Farm Supply 1940 California Keepsakes A great little Ad for farm implement and feed store Marcus C, lot of California themed items. Included is a Hawley & Company. Ad is two sided, measuring beautifully colored 1911 calendar. It measures 5”x 11” and ready about 9”x 12” and appears to come out of a town for hanging. Next, we have a program and ticket stub from the 1940 directory. One side shows various wagons and Madrone Rodeo. There’s also a photo taken in Nevada City, CA., a small harvesters, the other shows color paintings of canvas bag from Mother Lode Bank and a Souvenir of a Sutter County pastoral farm scenes. Item is in good condition School District for its term 1904-1905. All in good condition. Please with a fold crease. See photos for more detail and see photos for more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $50-80 $120-250 HWAC# 124536 HWAC# 119341 Lot# 4017 New Almaden, California Very Nice Lot# 4023 San Francisco, California Adolph ‘Watkins Pacific Coast’ Stereo-view of New Sutro Group Includes an 1896 check to Wilkins Almeden Edges are a little rough and photo and Parson. Signed by Sutro. Issued while he fades at the background, but the view of the was mayor. 2) RPC Looking up at Sutro Heights. New Almaden mining camp is spectacular! 3) RPC of inside of massive Sutro baths, Ken Number 162. Carlton E. Watkins. Carleton Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123469 E. Watkins (1829–1916) was an American photographer of the 19th century. Born in New York, he moved to California and quickly Lot# 4024 San Francisco, California became interested in photography. He focused mainly on landscape 1906 Collection of 9 Double Panel S. F. photography, and Yosemite Valley was a favorite subject of his. The New Earthquakes Postcards and 10 Photos Taken Almaden quicksilver mine in the Capitancillas Range in Santa Clara from Nob Hill, downtown streets, etc. They are County, is the oldest and most productive quicksilver (i.e., mercury) all dramatic. Photos are original. Condition mine in the U.S. Ken Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123223 varies from good to very nice. Mostly on the higher side. See Photo for details. Ken Prag Collection Est. $500-1000 HWAC# 123451 Lot# 4018 Oakland, California 1883 & 1912 Oakland Ephemera Lot of 2. 1) 1912 mounted Lot# 4025 san francisco, california Levi photograph of school children taken by Hugo Strauss Company Receipt and Checks This Weitz, Fruitvale and Oakland. Photo is 4.5 x lot of two checks, one letterhead, and one 7.5” on 7 x 10” mount. 2) 1883 Report of Title receipt endorsed by an executive of the Levi for Lots No. 24 & 25 in Webster Homestead Strauss Company at 14 & 16 Battery Street in Union, City of Oakland. Est. $60-100 HWAC# San Francisco dated 1876 and 1883. Est. $100- 113170 300 HWAC# 108699 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 193

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4026 San Francisco, California 1890’s Lot# 4032 Sebastapol, California 1909 - c1940 Ralston & Grayson Checks Three checks Santa Rosa / Sebastapol Area Real Photo printed with Ralston & Grayson, Mines & Mining Postcard Collection Lot of eleven. (Two in the heading. Rare, RNX, they are unlisted issued and dated 1913). Four of sculptures in the Castelholz guide. The bottom one is made of apples at Sebastapol. Also Stone tower, torn, but the top two are in good condition. Armstrong Wood (1909), Catholic Church See photos for more detail and condition. The in Guerneville, Guerneville bridge, Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-300 Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce HWAC# 123468 Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $30-60 HWAC# 124452 Lot# 4033 Sonora, California Pony Express Publication & Medals Contains 42 copies of Lot# 4027 San Francisco, California circa The Pony Express, a monthly publication put 1837 - 1973 San Francisco Mint & Fire out by the Pony Express Association of Sonora, California. Copies Patrol Posters (2) & Wrought Iron Model range throughout the 1960’s. Also included are three Pony Express Toy 1) Reopening of the Old Mint at 5th & commemorative medals, including a Diamond Jubilee, Centennial and Mission Streets. California Historical Society one dated 1860-1935. All items are in very nice condition. See photos Presents: “The West Remembered - Artists & for more detail and condition. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $120-300 Images” 1837-1973 Underwriters Fire Patrol, HWAC# 119333 California 1871; 2) Wrought Iron Model Toy (Repro) of the Insurance Underwriter’s Fire Patrol Wagon used in the Lot# 4034 Vallejo, California 1900 1870’s (21” Length) Est. $200-300 HWAC# 124813 Solano County Fair Best Exhibit Diploma for Printing on Tapestry Original award diploma with blue ribbon and gold seal, reads: Solano Lot# 4028 San Francisco, California San County Agricultural Association Francisco Stereo-view Group Lot of five. awards this Diploma to Mrs. James 1) “Busy Market Street” by Underwood & Megarry For Best Exhibit of Painting Underwood. 2) “Spring Street” draped in on Tapestry At the Annual Fair of American flags. 3) “Market Street”. Building 1900. No tears or visible damage to signs easy to read! 4) “Lick House” and the diploma. Mounted in gold-toned “California Street.” Popular Series Ken Prag ornamented wood frame and glass, Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# 123201 19-1/4 x 23-1/4 inches with frame opening of 15-1/2 x 19-1/4 inches. Lot# 4029 San Francisco, California circa See photo for condition and content 1906 San Francisco’s 1906 Earthquake & details. Est. $400-800 HWAC# 125097 Fire Combo (2) Photo’s & Book 1) Three panoramic photographs of the Ruins including Lot# 4035 Visalia, California Visalia Railroad a view of San Francisco from the waterfront, Tunnel Railroad Stereoview Another great view of Telegraph Hill, and views of the Western Carleton E Watkins photograph and Stereo- addition and Mission Districts (all sheets are view. Photo taken inside a tunnel with railroad approx 18” x 32” in size and were supplements tracks and hand written in “Tunnel on the to the San Francisco Examiner on June 3, July 23, and August 5, of 1906 Visalia Rail Road.” Rare California railroad. respectively); 2) San Francisco and Vicinity, the Story of the Great This line was sold to the Southern Pacific in 1899. Watkins was a very Disaster, April 18th to 21st, 1906. This book is illustrated with nearly important nineteenth century photographer. Ken Prag Collection Est. 100 half-tone engravings from photos; 2 foldout panorama photos, $100-150 HWAC# 123228 42” x 7” & 17” x 7” hardcover book with unique cover is 10” x 7” and 100 pages. Est. $250-350 HWAC# 124811 Lot# 4036 Yosemite, California Yosemite Stereo-view Collection Lot of 22. Includes Nevada Falls, Glacier Point rock overlook, El Lot# 4030 San Francisco, California 1906 The Capitan, mule ride up Glacier Point Trail, Vernal Falls, Mirror Lake, Yo-semite Valley, Merced River, Panther Gap, Sentinel Hotel, Great Argonaut 1906. 30th year of the publications. Agnazie Boulder, Clouds Rest, Cap of Liberty, the Cathedral. Publishers Article’s: regarding GERONIMO’S MEXICAN include JM Davis, Underwood & Underwood, Universal Photo Art, RAID, giving an account of what happened and Stromeyer and Wyman, Works Studio, Keystone, George W Griffith, Geronimo’s explanation/apology. THE JAPANESE Lawrence & Houseworth, HC White, JJ Reilly, CL Pond, JOhn P Soule. IN OUR SCHOOLS, discussing the segregation of the Ken Prag Collection Est. $150-250 HWAC# 123224 children in separate building and Pres. Roosevelt’s apology to the Imperial Gov;t. MORE CUBIC AIR FOR Lot# 4037 California California Stereo-view HOBOES, discussion on the ordinance regarding the Collection Lot of eight. 1-2) Ferry Landing in housing of he criminal element and how to provide Oakland. 3) Handwritten on reverse “Down in more room when buildings are in disrepair. Rare (R175). Exc. cond. the Arroyo Seco, near Golden Crest. March 1, Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 120357 1911.” 4) Hand printed “Snow on Mt. Wilson.” Lot# 4031 San Francisco, California 1939 The 5) Cactus Tree at the Bliss Residence. By AC Varola. 6) Sacramento street scene by Sterro-photo. 7-8) “Spanish Sunday Funnies Nostalgic Sunday comics from Mission” and “Los Angeles pigeon farm.” Keystone View COmpany. Ken the San Francisco Examiner. Strips like Rosie’s Prag Collection Est. $200-300 HWAC# 123202 Beau, Our Boarding House, The Nut Bros.and Mickey Finn are just a few of the comic strips Lot# 4038 California 1892 Great Register of you’ll find in these sections. Some are in pretty Voters Sutter County Twelve page newspaper rough shape. See photos for more detail. The 16 x 12 inches, the Great Register of Voters of Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Sutter County, California for 1892. Salvatore Falcone Collection Est. $100- Est. $60-100 HWAC# 122890 200 HWAC# 124328 194 October 2020

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4039 California News of the California Gold Lot# 4044 Columbus Junction, Iowa Iowa Rush This is a full cover page of the New York Daily Stereoview Collection of Columbus Junction Tribune dated September 17, 1850 giving accounts of and Area Lot of twelve. “Reform Church of a gold miner receiving mail on the Yuba River. Another Col[umbus] Junct[ion]” by JG Baker. Strong account is a miner traveling by paddle boat north on contrast! Seven other Col. Junctions by Baker the Sacramento River! Est. $50-100 HWAC# 108713 including suspension bridge, main street, 1904 Chautauqua and M. E. Church. One Chautauqua and one Grand View. GREAT Iowa stereo-view group Ken Prag Collection Est. $80-250 HWAC# 123241 Lot# 4040 Colorado Colorado Mining Lot# 4045 Kentucky 1847 Slave Document Stereo-views Lot of six. 1-2) “Digging Coal” signed by Constable Cahale This is a receipt in Starkville. HC White & Company. Same document, which appears to be in settlement of view, different presentation. One is quite a lawsuit, showing the list of personal property remarkable. 3) “Driving Crosscut, Folus mine, of an individual, and the personal property Needle Mountain.” Keystone View Company. includes one slave (Negro), along with a 4-5) Underwood & Underwood. “Nightingale horse, cattle, goat, saddle, and other items. It Mine at Bull Hill” Duplicate. 6) “The Great Loop, is signed by the Constable, R. Cahale. The Cahale family lived in the Silver Plume.” CH Graves. Fancy reverse. “Driving Coal and “Driving Mercer, Boone, and Washington Counties of Kentucky. Caleb Cahale, Crosscut” have long descriptions on reverse. Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123204 believed to be the son of R. Cahale, lived in the town of Union, Boone County, Kentucky (located about 17 miles southwest of Cincinnati, Lot# 4041 Atlanta, Georgia 1881 Great Ohio), served as a soldier in the Confederate Army. The document International Cotton Exposition Stereoview says: A schedule of the Goods & Chattels of Natt? Smith A Negro taken Published by JG Evans of Atlanta. Hand in execution of the suit apellant? and? Price 1 Gray mare 2 head of Cattle 1 Goat & Grain? Saddle and Bridle 2 head of Hoggs taken as the written “No. 7 N. Wing M. B. From the East.” property of the said N Smith this 26th day of January 1847 subject to This exposition and World’s Fair became prior claims if any Solo. R. Cahale Const[able] Condition: toning on known as the Code of 1882. Significant of Georgia s rehabilitation from the ravages of Civil war was an event the left side with age spots along edges. Est. $150-250 HWAC# 119704 which occurred during Governor Colquitt s administration the great International Cotton Exposition of 1881. For a city of only 50,000 Lot# 4046 Greenfield, Massachusetts Van Doorn and inhabitants to inaugurate the first world’s fair ever held in the South Baldwin Ad Piece Compliments of Van Doorn and and to carry forward such an enterprise to a most successful climax is Baldwin, Dealers in Crockery, Glass, and Silver Ware, an achievement little short of miraculous especially when remember Wall Papers, Window Shades, Refrigerators, House that only sixteen short years before this time Atlanta was a mass of Furnishing Goods, Greenfield, Mass. Printed by Wm. smoldering ruins in the wake of Sherman s destructive march to the Miller, 25 Arch St, Boston. Design shows an oval with sea. One of the most interested of all the visitors to this exposition a beautifully bedecked woman with a parasol, and was the grim despoiler himself Gen William Tecumseh Sherman But around the oval is a snowy outdoor scene with a blue- he was most warmly and graciously received. Ken Prag Collection Est. tailed whipplesnaffer on a branch (yes, I made that $100-150 HWAC# 123227 name up). Edges are trimmed with a border of gold- Lot# 4042 Georgia 1910-1969 Coca-Cola colored ink. Item itself is 7-1/2 x 12 inches and has been mounted onto a periwinkle blue matte board and framed in an ornately carved, Ephemera (Checks & Letterheads) Lot of medium-brown wood frame and glass that is 10-1/2 x 15 inches. Some 22. Many are colorful and pictorial. Includes 7 minor scuffs and stains on the item. See photo for details. Est. $100- checks, 1934-1969, incl. Santa Cruz, Petaluma, 150 HWAC# 125189 San Francisco, and Piqua, Ohio. Fifteen receipts and letterheads, nearly all pictorial, 1910- Lot# 4047 St. Paul, Minnesota 1886 St. Paul 1942, from places such as Vidalia (GA), Jackson Ice Carnival of 1881 Captured in Stereoview (TN), Tampa (FL), San Francisco (CA), Abilene (TX), Waycross (GA), and Helena (GA). Ken Prag Collection Est. $120- Lot of four. All published by HH Bennett of 200 HWAC# 113743 Kilbourn City, Wisconsin. Fancy scroll work on borders. Includes # 1557 main entrance, 1556 Lot# 4043 Honolulu, Hawaii July 13, 1878 Hawaiian illumination of Third Street, 1512 Bouncing, and 4) 1558 Palace as seen from toboggan Newspaper An 1878 edition of The Commercial slide. Has some condition issues, but overall good. The carnival was in Advertiser, The Boys in Blue Edition Third Expedition. 1886/87. Ken Prag Collection Est. $70-150 HWAC# 123231 This is four pages, is 23” by 16” and has woodcut illustration of Honolulu on masthead. Printed in six Lot# 4048 Vicksburg, Mississippi July 2, 1863 columns on fading pink paper. This is a rare surviving The Daily Citizen - Reports on the Civil War example of split fountain printing, where the top of the This is a framed and mounted page from The page is flag red, graduating to salmon pink, then lilac, Daily Citizen, an 1863 newspaper published on then blending to sky blue and, at the lower portion, July 2, 1863. As one would expect, the news touts darker ocean blue. Featured stories include the arrival all the victories and triumphs of General Robert of Major Genl. Merritt, Commander of the Philippines. There’s also an E. Lee’s Army of Virginia. The piece measures article that calls for Annexation a theme that went through previous 12”x 20” and is in excellent condition. A unique and future issues. There are tears and a missing 2.5”x 3.25” section conversation starter. See photos for more details. missing from both leaves. There is the expected brown age toning. Est. $150-200 HWAC# 121757 Please see photos for more detail and condition. Est. $200-400 HWAC# 125440 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 195

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4049 Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Lot# 4054 Bullfrog, Nevada 1905 Bullfrog Missouri Stereo-views of Flood 1) Gentleman Townsite Water and Ice Company - In the at a mailbox looking over the freight yard. heart of the Rhyolite Rush Number 28 for 2) Gentlemen looking down a water laden 1500 to DH Jackson. Signed HH Clark president street from the Union Station. Photos by and Key Pittman secretary. Key Pittman was Works Studios and Publisher Underwood & a United States Senator from Nevada (1913- Underwood. Photos are sharp and clear! Ken 1940), serving eventually as president pro Prag Collection Est. $50-80 HWAC# 123198 tempore as well as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Bull Frog is Stamped in over Amargosa, Nevada. Amargosa is extremely Lot# 4050 Butte, Montana Butte, Montana rare. Dateline April 10, 1905. Shield underprint title block. HS Crocker Stereo-view Group Lot of four. 1-3) Published & Company, San Francisco, printer. Horizontal rips (1”) on horizontal by NA Forsyth of Butte. Two “Mule Train” photos folds. Other miner issues. Still a great Nevada piece! Ken Prag Collection at the Rarus Mine. “1,600 feet under ground, Est. $300-500 HWAC# 123359 Original Mine.” 4) Copper “Smelters and Mines”. Keystone View Company Ken Prag Collection Est. Lot# 4055 Carlin, Nevada 1879 Five 1879 Written $60-100 HWAC# 123206 Documents - Inlcuding an Interpreting Letter 1) Letter is about getting help on a ranch. “I haired a vaquero this morning and sent him and Kocett(?) Lot# 4051 Austin, Nevada 1867-1884 Five to Boulder Basin...” Trouble finding help! Boulder Basin seems to be on Boulder Creek and northwest Different Austin Billheads Lot of 5 different. of Carlin and a Barrack site today. 2-6) Receipts. All Two have NV revenue stamps. Includes: from W. S, Hobart for routine supplies. Fred Holabird RT Hopkins (Newspapers, Cigars, 1884); Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123176 E. Wallach (Clothing, 1871); Cook Brothers (Clothing, Groceries, 1870); Holbrook, Merrill Lot# 4056 Carson City, Nevada 1878-1901 & Co. (Stoves, Hardware, 1867 with Nevada Carson City, Nevada Billhead Group Lot of 8 revenue stamp); and a different Cook Bros. (1868, with Nevada revenue stamp). Ken Prag Collection Est. $100-150 different. Included: E.B. Rail (1883, pictorial); HWAC# 113690 Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Co. (1878, attached to Omega Mill billhead); Davis & Lot# 4052 Austin, Nevada 1875 Manhattan Farrer (1900, attached to V&T voucher); Dunn Silver Mining Company scrip: $1, $5, $10, & Lemmon, The News (1901); John Cotton (1900, pictorial, attached to V&T voucher); HC $20 Four of the seven different denominations Kattlemann (1900, attached to V&T voucher); Carson City Coal Gas Co. ( $1, $3, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100) that the (1878, attached to V&T voucher); and The Morning Appeal (1900). Ken Manhattan Mining Company issued their Prag Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 113688 miners. They would argue it was intended to provide the convenience of paper money, and redeemable as stated in Lot# 4057 Carson City, Nevada 1900’s Carson “Merchantable Silver.” The miners would argue it was a way that the Valley Check Register A nearly complete mining company did not have to pay them and force them to buy at check register from The Carson Valley Bank the company store. RN-D1 imprinted revenue stamp on both. Features a birds-eye view of Austin, Nevada, Date: 1875 Ken Prag Collection Est. of Carson City, Nevada, in the early 1900’s, as $200-400 HWAC# 123466 shown by the dateline on the checks. There are several pages of blank, unused checks and some pages torn from the register. It has a hard cover which is a bit Lot# 4053 Boulder City, Nevada c1935 ORIGINAL soiled, but all and all a very nice collector’s item. Please see photos for Broadside for the detail and condition. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Opening of Hoover Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $100-200 HWAC# 124513 Dam This broadside Lot# 4058 Carson City, Nevada c1900 is titled, “Las Vegas, Livingston Souvenir Notebook - One Time Nevada / Gateway to Proprietor of Nevada’s Oldest Bar The oldest the Great Boulder Dam.” bar in Nevada is in Genoa (the oldest city in It was published with Nevada). Livinston was an importer of foreign “Compliments of the and domestic wines, liquors and cigars. He Boulder Reality Company.” was a dealer in iron water, sarsaparilla, Sierra The main map on the Export Lager, etc. One advertisement of brunt cork? Wrinkle leather, broadside includes Lake Mead, Virgin River, Colorado River, Virgin but overall good. Random notes inside. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60- Canyon, Flour Sack Rapids, Devil’s Slide, Pierce’s Ferry, Travertine 100 HWAC# 123157 Canyon, etc., etc., etc. Five small inserts show: 1) the area covered by the dam compared to the northeast states, 2) the Los Angeles / Phoenix Lot# 4059 Carson City, Nevada 1904 Morning area, 3) Catun Lake and Canal of Panama, 4) mountain scenery, and Appeal Carson City Newspaper Group 5) proposed All American Canal route. In 1935 President Roosevelt Various dates in 1904. January, March, June, dedicated this dam. Its construction was the result of a massive effort etc. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western involving thousands of workers, and “officially” ninety-five lives. This Memorabilia Est. $100-200 HWAC# 108450 BROADSIDE (22 x 32”) commemorates this feat and promotes the Las Vegas / Boulder City / Boulder Dam area. It is newsprint and Lot# 4060 Carson City, Nevada 1862 Nevada therefore at 85 years old is not in perfect condition. It is folded, has Territory Pictorial Billhead Fantastic! Lewis some discoloration issues and a few rips (i. e. at some corner folds). Brothers, Importers & Dealers in Havana Still, for its age and the material it was printed on, it is a great piece and American Cigars, Playing & Monte Cards. of American history and has aged fairly gracefully. The Historic V & T Dateline Carson City, May 26th, 1862. Issued Railroad Depot Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. $1000- to John Fox fo matches. Vignette of man with 2000 HWAC# 123221 Native American and patriotic eagle. Printed on blue paper. You don’t get much earlier for a Nevada billhead! Ken Prag Collection Est. $200- 300 HWAC# 113692 196 October 2020

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4061 Carson City, Nevada 1867-1875 Lot# 4067 Goldfield, Nevada 1907 Montezuma Wells Fargo & Co. Check Group (5) Lot of Club of Goldfield, Nevada - Where the Rich Five.One TERRITORIAL Virginia City check and Famous Played! The Montezuma Club was datelined September 1, 1862. From the Empire an elegant men’s organization, anexclusive club Mill and Mining Company. Two 1867 with for the moves and shakers of Goldfield. This stamped “Paid Through.” Printed by Towne & is a visitor’s pass dated September 24, 1907. Bacon. One 1873. Printed by Bacon & Company. One revenue imprinted Handwritten it says “Ladies Day.” A chance to see 1875. Printed by Bacon & Company. All are datelined ‘Carson’ and not the inside of this male club. Hard cardboard and ‘Carson City.’ Four different varieties. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $50- in very nice condition. Fred Holabird Collection Est. 80 HWAC# 123124 $60-100 HWAC# 123144 Lot# 4062 Carson City, Nevada 1866-1875 Lot# 4068 National, Nevada 1912. 1916 Three Wells Fargo & Comp[any Bank, Carson City Different National, Nevada Billheads 1) 1912 Collection (4) Lot of four. 1866) Plain. Has U. S. Thos. Defenbaugh general merchandise. Talks and Nevada 2c revenue stamps. Signed by John about proxies, annual work, etc. References Kidd and issued to Mason Huff & Company. McDonald. Probably referring to the Kennedy 1867) Has both a U. S. and Nevada 2c revenue stamps. Towne & Bacon MacDonald Mining Company - see nest item. 2) Kennedy McDonald printer. 1875) Issued to Jerry Schooling. Schooling was active in Mining Company. 1912. Letter written by RE McDonald to lawyer in politics in Carson City. Signed as Rice Peter. $500.00. 1875) Imprinted Winnemucca references Defenbaugh. 3) Quarterly report from NPR 2c revenue stamp. All four are different varieties of the Wells Fargo Hatch, Justice of the Peace for the National township. About fees checks. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123136 collected for destroying noxious animals. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123174 Lot# 4063 Comstock, Nevada 1869-1883 Comstock Area Billhead Group (Dayton, Lot# 4069 Reno, Nevada 1890’s N. E. Wilson, Carson, Virginia City) Lot of 5 different. Reno druggist (Nevada Bottle Book 1) Dayton: three billheads issued to the Related) Two volumes. Starts at January 3, Woodworth Sluice Co. Includes: P. Barnes, 1891 and goes to July 9, 1894. The first appears Livery and Feed Stable, 1874, two vignettes; JA to list ores burned at the B. C. Company in Bay- Bonham, Stationery & Jewelry, 1874; and Meyer & Stegman, Groceries, -- City, New Jersey at their lab. The second is 1874. 2) Virginia City:HC Lillie & Co., Books & Stationery, to the Savage stamped Agricultural Experiment Station in Mine, 1869. 3) Carson City: EB Rail, hardware, 1883, to the V&T Reno, Nevada. He was offered a position in Railroad, pictorial, attached to V&T voucher. Ken Prag Collection Est. the Chemistry Department at this time and $100-200 HWAC# 113689 it brought him out west. Lists Chemical sold. Very interesting! Fred Holabird Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123119 Lot# 4064 Comstock, Virginia City, Nevada 1867- 1909 Virginia City Ephemera-Billheads, Checks, Lot# 4070 Reno, Nevada 1906, 1909 Two Mining Report (10) Lot of 10. 1) Savage Mining H. C. Heidtmann Leather Souvenirs (see Company Daily Report for Nov. 5, 1875. Showing Nevada Bottle Book for more history) 1) workers employed that day at various stations. 5.5 x 3.75” note book. Has information printed 2) Two billheads: Joseph Fredericks, Paints/Oils/ on the first few pages of this Standard Note- Glass, 1887 to the Savage Mining Company; and Book. Not many notes inside, but one mentions the Market Street Virginia City Gas Company, 1881, to the Virginia Railway Company of San Francisco. Nice condition. 2) A 1909 cover & Gold Hill Water Company. 3) Three checks: two for a notebook? More intriguing cover, but in very poor condition with different Savage Mining Company paystubs, 1867 no innards. Heidtmann took over Becker’s Saloon in Reno at the end and 1871, and Con-Virginia Mining Company, 1909. 4) Four Empire, of 1900. In 1906, he began managing the Wieland Bottling and Soda Nevada pieces. Three small letters involving Comstock mining stock Works. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $80-150 HWAC# 123156 sales, 1890s, and a cover addressed to Evan Williams in Empire City, Nevada. Est. $100-150 HWAC# 113338 Lot# 4071 Reno, Nevada 1907 Wallet as a Christmas Gift from Lot# 4065 Gold Hill, Nevada c1970-1995 Gold Thyes and Reese (See Nevada Hill & Virginia City Newspapers - 3 Boxes Bottle Book for hsitory) From Each copy is in a protective mylar sleeve. Gold ‘The Crystal.’ Thyes was involved in Hill News, Comstock Chronicle. Both papers Nevada and Reno in the late 1800’s are the only publication centering on news of and early 1900’s. Herman Thyes the Comstock. The Historic V & T Railroad Depot came to California during the Gold Stockpile of Pierce Powell’s Western Memorabilia Est. Rush with his family. He came to $100-200 HWAC# 108401 Reno in the mid 1870s and worked for Elia Chielovich at the saloon the Lot# 4066 Goldfield, Nevada 1908 Wine House. In 1880, Thyes began his own saloon, liquor, and wine First National Bank of Goldfield business under the name “Chase & Thyes.” When he bought out his Bank Book This book belonged partner, it became known as the Crystal Saloon, HJ Thyes & Co. He to J. Emmett Walsh. Walsh was was also a member (and once chief) of the Reno Fire Department. a Goldfield lawyer. Transactions Thyes retired in 1916. Wallet has been used: stitching unraveling at occurred between 1908 and 1913. top, leather shows signs of wear. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 Most pages full. Overall in good HWAC# 123155 condition. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123147 View complete catalog, Register, and Bid online at FHWAC.com 197

DAY 4 Sunday, Nov 1 General Americana / Geographical Lot# 4072 Sodaville / Tonopah, Nevada 1902 Lot# 4077 Virginia City, Nevada 1869-1878 Original Ore Shipping Receipts Very early Comstock Checks with Four Different Revenue Tonopah ore shipping receipts. Lot of two. Imprinted Stamps (three with important Teamster from Tonopah was R. Stewart and signatures) (4) 1) Rare and unlisted buff United weigher in Sodaville was Mark Averill. Both States revenue imprint. Imprinted with H. M. signed the hard cardboard paper. 4.5 x 3”. One Yerington and signed by Yerington. Yerington was shipment was for 27,458 pound and the other for in charge of the famed V&T RR during it heyday. 26, 828 pounds. That is 14 tons per wagon load!!! 2) Carson & Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company Per Fred Holabird, Wyatt Earp worked for this imprinted check signed by D. L. Bliss (Bliss State outfit. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $60-100 HWAC# Park at Lake Tahoe). Purple n white. 3) Iconic Gould 123148 & Curry Solver Mining Company imprinted on Bank of California Check. Signed by Issac Requa, mining and railroad magnate in Nevada. Lot# 4073 Tonopah, Nevada A. B. C. Key Tag Has a green 2c imprinted Nevada revenue stamp. Certainly one of the Number 10! By Moise Klinkner Company of most beautiful Nevada checks. 4) Wells Fargo, Carson City Check. Fred San Francisco. Three inch diameter. Bent to Holabird Collection Est. $100-200 HWAC# 123130 center. One protrusion is missing. Lettering is extremely strong. We are not sure what A. B. C. Lot# 4078 Virginia City, Nevada Comstock stands for? Great research project. Fred Holabird Checks, James Fair Autographs (Lot of 5) 1- Collection Est. $150-300 HWAC# 123161 2) James Fair signs these two Nevada Bank of San Francisco checks. One issued for the Rhode Island Mill Pay Roll and the other to the Nevada Lot# 4074 Virginia City, Nevada 1864-1881 Silver Mining Company. Blue on white with Comstock Billhead Collection 1 (Virginia imprinted revenue stamps. 3) An early James Fair check on Bank of City, Gold Hill, Silver City) Lot of 15. Great California check. 1874. Issued to the Carson Wood Company. “Kelsey Mill” written in ink diagonally. 4-5) Two Well Fargo checks from Carson variety; only one duplicate! Includes: Derby City. One had an adhesive Nevada revenue and U. S. Revenue stamps & Garhart (VC, pictorial, 1872); John McCone and the other an imprinted U. S.l revenue stamp. One is written out to (Silver City, 1868); Fred Boegle (VC, 1873); J. R. Newhouse(?) for “4 loads to Merrimac [mine]. That is assuredly Whites Canon Mill (VC, 1864, territorial); Brown & Aurich (VC, 1870, pictorial); JB Dazet (VC, 1890s); HC Lillie & four loads of ore by wagon to be processed by the mill. Fred Holabird Co. (VC, 1868 and 1869); Jas. MacDonald (VC, 1872); Gillig, Mott & Co. Collection Est. $100-150 HWAC# 123129 (VC, 1868); Joseph Fredericks (VC, 1866); Omega Mill (VC, 1880); T. Lot# 4079 Virginia City, Woolley (Gold Hill, 1879); Hoosier State Mill (VC, 1873); and Virginia Nevada 1869-1873 Fantastic Evening Chronicle (VC, 1881). Varying condition. Please inspect. Ken Group of Three Checks - Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113756 Each with a U. S. imprinted Lot# 4075 Virginia City, Nevada 1866-1892 revenue stamp and Nevada Comstock Billhead Collection 2 (Virginia 2c imprinted revenue stamp 1) The Iconic Gould City, Gold Hill, Silver City) Lot of 16. Great & Curry Green Bank of variety: only one duplicate! Included: McGinnis California Check. Green 2c & Carrick (Silver City, 1878, condition issues); imprinted Nevada stamp on Gillig, Mott & Co. (VC, 1868); WN Hall & Co. (Gold Hill, 1891); JW Hemenway (VC, pictorial, left. Signed by none other 1867); Fulton Iron & Brass Foundry (VC, 1867); JB Dazet (VC, 1889); than Issac Requa (Comstock PH Ford (VC, 1892); Joseph Fredericks (VC, two different, 1866 and mining magnate and Nevada 1887); J. Peguigney (VC, pictorial, 1874); California Market (VC, 1883); railroad magnate). 2) W. S. HC Lillie & Co. (VC, 1869); Jas MacDonald (VC, 1872); A. Dyer (VC, Hobart (Lake Tahoe lumber 1868); Savage Mining Co. to Virginia Evening Chronicle (VC, 1880); baron) Bank of California and Savage Mining Co. to Wells Fargo (VC, 1883). Please inspect. Ken check. 1872. Nevada 2c Prag Collection Est. $300-500 HWAC# 113757 revenue printed on top of the U. S. 2c revenue. Nevada revenue is reddish brown. Signed by Lot# 4076 Virginia James Fair (on of the Big Four and future United States Senator. 3) City, Nevada 1867-1900 1873 Occidental Mill Bank of California check. Also signed by James Comstock Billhead Fair. Issued to Fulton Foundry - one of Virginia City’s most prolific Collection 3 Lot of 12. foundry’s. Nevada 2c revenue printed on top of the U. S. 2c revenue. Most different. Included: Nevada revenue is traditional brown. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO HC Lillie & Co. (VC, dupes, OWN ALL THREE AT ONE TIME! Fred Holabird Collection Est. $200-400 1868 and 1869); Brunswick HWAC# 123138 Exploration Co. (VC, 1896); Fulton Iron and Brass Lot# 4080 Virginia City, Nevada 1869-1878 Foundry (VC, 1868); Crown Five Revenue Imprinted Checks with Key Point G&SMC (Gold Hill, Signatures Here is a great lot for any collector. 1897); Savage Mining Co. 1) Bank of California check signed by Mackay. (VC, 1900); Banner Bros. (VC, 1873); Doake, Hobart & Co. (VC, 1874); 1874. Bacon Mill print. 2) Bank of California Henry Dietz & Co. (VC, 1891); Bank of California (VC, 1867); Gearhart check signed by Yerington. UNLISTED buff & Keller (VC, 1874); and Gillig, Mott & Co. (VC, 1868). Please inspect. revenue imprint. 1874. H. M. Yerington print. 3) Bank of California Ken Prag Collection Est. $240-300 HWAC# 113777 check signed by Requa. Gould and Curry Silver Mining Company print. 1869. Green 2c Nevada revenue imprint. Iconic Nevada check. 4) Bank of California check signed by Bliss. Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company print. 1878. 5) Bank of California check signed by Mackay. 1874. Occidental Mill print. Nevada 2c brownish red revenue imprint. Poor condition. Fred Holabird Collection Est. $240-350 HWAC# 123141 198 October 2020